Ken,
I would suggest that you embed python in your app (very easy to do).
-And convert several of your existing scripts to python.
-Show them a stack of python books for customer training purposes
- Drive excel with python (allows integration of your product with other
products.
- Pick an area of functionality that your product offers today that your
customer would like to customize.
- convert this alg to python
- hack you product to execute the python script
- code a variant of the alg in python
- execute your variant to demonstrate that python can lower custom
development cost, and provide points of extensibility
Have fun,
good luck,
Mike
Kenneth McDonald wrote:
> I'm not trying to persuade my company to offer Python as a scripting
> language for their product, but I am trying to give them examples of
> things that Python can do easily that cannot be done easily with their
> current proprietary scripting language. After that it would be their
> decision. As the product is a 3D package, I'm looking for something in
> this field.
>
> This does _not_ have to use PyOpenGL, or for that matter, any Python 3D
> package. In fact, my ideal would be a Python script that simply uses
> L-Systems (Lindenmayer systems) as in "The Algorithmic Beauty of
> Plants", to generate plantlike OBJ files that can then be displayed in
> our program. In general, something that generates an OBJ file would
> probably be preferable to something that actually uses PyOpenGL,
> Blender, etc, as then I can just display the OBJ file in our program to
> say, "This is the sort of thing that can be easily done by Python
> without recourse to any other programs".
>
> So please, any suggestions are welcome.
>
> As always, many thanks to this group,
> Ken
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