[java-dev] Announce: Python for MaxMSP (beta)

You, sir, are being quite prolific of late.

Good job.

b

On Feb 29, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Nick Rothwell wrote:

> After a hectic flurry of activity, I now have a port of Python to  
> MaxMSP, using the Jython package and MXJ.
>
> It was something of a refactoring effort, but there's now a common  
> base of code supporting both the Groovy and Jython systems, which  
> means that from a Max perspective they look very similar: the same  
> interface, attributes and parameters. I even managed to port all the  
> example patchers and scripts from the Groovy release into Jython.  
> (At least one of the sub-patchers is identical in both systems.)
>
> There's a release at
>
> 	http://www.loadbang.net/space/Software/net.loadbang.jython
>
> I've labelled it a beta since there are one or two things I need to  
> tidy up (involving threading and module reloading), but it would be  
> good if folks could bash on it a little. The javadocs are online and  
> the sources are included in the release, but I still need to package  
> up the sources of the common scripting code. The javadocs are also a  
> bit unfinished (I fully expect to find some occurrences of "Groovy"  
> where it should say "Jython", for example).
>
> As an aside, I'm rather getting to like Python. It's a bit basic,  
> but it's simple, clear and reliable, rather like a 2CV or an old  
> labrador.
>
> 	-- N.
>
>
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