Re: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.

2005-05-02 Thread rrr
On 1 May 2005 at 6:18, Engineer wrote: > The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a > "standard" application then software written in MS Office VBA must be > "safe." Any other development environments (such as Java, Perl, > Cygwin) are "unsafe" and can't be installed.

Re: My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.)

2005-05-01 Thread Lee Cullens
From: Leif Biberg Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 1, 2005 2:13:43 PM EDT To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.) Cameron Laird skrev: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Engi

Re: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.

2005-05-01 Thread Jeremy Bowers
On Sun, 01 May 2005 06:18:27 -0700, Engineer wrote: > The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a > "standard" application then software written in MS Office VBA must be > "safe." "Melissa". (Google hint: "Virus".) Given the brazen stupidity demonstrated by these decisio

Re: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.

2005-05-01 Thread Do Re Mi chel La Si Do
Hi ! VBA is at the end of his lifetime. The next MS-Office will not have VBA (because dotNet). You should really adopt Python. @-salutations -- Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.)

2005-05-01 Thread Leif Biberg Kristensen
Cameron Laird skrev: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > . > . >>The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a >>"standard" application then software written in MS Office VBA must be >>"safe." Any other development environments (su

Re: My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.)

2005-05-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cameron Laird wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > . > . > >The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a > >"standard" application then software written in MS

My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.)

2005-05-01 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a >"standard" application then software written in MS Office VBA must be >"safe." A

Re: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.

2005-05-01 Thread Larry Bates
I don't think this is going to happen. Applications that drive MS Office applications merely call COM objects that perform the actual operations. It doesn't really matter what language calls the COM objects, they are the same objects all the time. If they don't like the "installation" of the Pyt

Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.

2005-05-01 Thread Engineer
I'm looking for a Python interpreter written in BASIC, preferably Visual Basic, and one written in VBA would be best of all. An alternative would be a Python-2-Basic compiler. Unfortunately I have to develop some special purpose code in an organization where my only development environment is Mic