In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Quest Master <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am interested in developing an application where the user has an ample amount of power to customize the application to their needs, and I feel this would best be accomplished if a scripting language was available. However, I want to code this application in Python, and I have not yet heard of an implementation of another scripting language into Python.
An example of what I mean is this (an implementation of Lua into Ruby -- which I'd prefer not to use): http://ruby-lua.unolotiene.com/
I know C/C++ might be better suited for a task of this kind, but most of the modules in my application which need speed have already been coded in C++. I want to use Python as the "glue" for this project; writing an entire application with a pretty GUI is not fun, as most of you may know from previous experience.
So, my question is simply this: is there an implementation of another scripting language into Python?
Python *is* a scripting language. Why not just let your users write Python modules which you them import and execute via some defined API?
There are examples of XML used for application configuration and in template systems, I don't know how much power you intend to give your users, but if it boils down to simple display logic and some small 'macro' calls to a predefined API, you could make some kind of tagged language for that implementing basic flowcontroll functionality, allowing function calling and definition.
You could look at wxWidgets/wxPython's XRC format, which are a XML tagged format that are used to customize layout of wx forms.
But I don't think there are a implemented any fully usable scripting languages like that in Python. But it should not be to much work if you don't need many functions.
-- -------------------------------------- Ola Natvig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> infoSense AS / development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
