Python on Alchemy

Ben Sand

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Sep 30, 2011, 10:27:56 PM9/30/11

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Hi,

Great to see you've got this far with Lua. I'm sure interest will pick up even more now that Alchemy is being re-released by Adobe.

I've been looking for a project like yours for Python, but haven't managed to find anything yet.

Have any of you had any experience in getting a Python interpreter running in Alchemy, or know anyone who has?

Thanks,

Ben Sand

Alexander Gladysh

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Oct 1, 2011, 2:10:33 AM10/1/11

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Hi, Ben!

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 06:27, Ben Sand <b...@bensand.com> wrote:

> Great to see you've got this far with Lua. I'm sure interest will pick up
> even more now that Alchemy is being re-released by Adobe.

Thank you for the kind words. We hope so too.

> I've been looking for a project like yours for Python, but haven't managed
> to find anything yet.
> Have any of you had any experience in getting a Python interpreter running
> in Alchemy, or know anyone who has?

No, I did not have any experience with that or know anyone. If you
will find something, please do share the information.

Try Lua — you'll like it :-)

Best regards,
Alexander.

Robert Stehwien

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Oct 26, 2011, 10:33:22 AM10/26/11

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> I've been looking for a project like yours for Python, but haven't managed
> to find anything yet.
> Have any of you had any experience in getting a Python interpreter running
> in Alchemy, or know anyone who has?

No, I did not have any experience with that or know anyone. If you
will find something, please do share the information.

When I started to prototype LuaAlchemy I also tried Python and Ruby. Both of them were a giant pain in the ass to get working in Alchemy. The Lua interpreter code is very clean (written in clean C after all) and made to be embedded. Python and Ruby aren't made to be embedded. Python's embedding and C binding is especially painful.

I also tried some Lisp variants which worked nicely... but decided to use Lua because the language was more approchable for most than Lisp.

Try Lua — you'll like it :-)

Lua is a great language. I had little interest in Lua before starting LuaAlchemy but now I love the language.

--Robert Stehwien

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