5 May
2004
5 May
'04
3:58 a.m.
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:53:38PM -0700, Andy McKay wrote:
Bryce Harrington wrote:
Well, that's kind of a bummer because we've got a bunch of backend code in Perl that we'd like to make use of, that'd be infeasible to have to rewrite all in Python. Is it possible to execute arbitrary scripts from a Python ExternalMethod?
Yes look at the os.system and popen modules in Python.
There's also the ZShellScripts product, which supports a number of interpreters including perl, but it may not be for the overly-security-conscious. It allows you to do some ... interesting ... things, as evidenced by this screenshot: http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/ZShellScripts/ScreenShots/2 -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com