• Re: Python (Amiga)

    From nugax@10:102/1 to All on Saturday, March 02, 2019 04:44:16
    Interesting.

    On 03:06 05/06 , Smooth wrote:
    I was talking with Anachronist last night on the ArakNet Discord Server and >he mentioned some of the mods that he was looking to build on his system. One >being some news mods that would aggregate data from certain Amiga RSS feeds. >We may be able to port some of our python mods over to the Amiga or provide >him with a starting point as there's actually an Amiga version of python >called AmigaPython (duh!). hehe

    If you know of anyone that's looking to tinker with Python on their Amiga >Bulletin boards send them this link:

    http://www.monkeyhouse.eclipse.co.uk/amiga/python

    * Workbench support - you can launch the interpreter, the scripts, and data >files linked to Python scripts from Workbench (not currently working in alpha >release of 2.3.3+)
    * ARexx support - connect your favorite ARexx enabled Amiga application. >Script them with Python instead of ARexx
    * AmigaOS extensions - write powerful Python scripts able to perform many >Amiga-specific tricks with the system and your files.

    What's new in alpha release 2?

    * XML (pyexpat) support working
    * bzip and zlib (zip) support
    * socket module for Internet access works
    * Uses ieee math libraries instead of FPU only ones
    * More complete amiga and amigapath modules, fixing st_size bug amongst >others

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