Quoting James Salter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks for the prompt advice Fuzzy. > > Getting into the guts of python may be acceptable, depending on whether its > going to be worth it. > > Anyone willing to indulge me even further by mounting a case for python in > favour of a VBScript / Jscript host (apart from the fact that VBScript is > vile)? >
You should only use Python if you want a scripting language that your users will actually be able to program in. If usability isn't a concern then another language may be more suitable ;-) Seriously though, I guess there is already a Jscript implementation built into WindowsCE. It may be easier/more practical to leverage that. Building a minimum (embeddable) Python VM for the Windows CE platform would be a very cool thing of course..... Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python > James > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, 17 May 2005 7:18 PM >> To: James Salter >> Cc: pythonce@python.org >> Subject: Re: [PythonCE] Python within another application >> >> Quoting James Salter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > Hi all. >> > >> > A few years back I implemented Python scripting in a win32 ftp client. I >> > was wondering if the procedure would be similar, or possible, on a CE >> app. >> > >> > James >> >> The issue is whether the C API is exposed in the same way. The answer is >> probably *yes* - as it is just a port of the main python distribution. >> >> (I have no experience of this - so this is all conjecture of course). >> >> I think your main problem will be resource consumption on the limited >> platform. >> If you cut down the python interpreter to only include the bare >> essentials (get >> rid of some of the embedded modules etc) then it would be more viable. >> That may >> entail more work in the Python source code than you are up for though. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Fuzzy >> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > PythonCE mailing list >> > PythonCE@python.org >> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce >> > >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
