On Apr 14, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Paul McNett wrote:

>> Can I used Python with VFP9?

>

> I do it by "shelling out". IOW, write the email to a file on disk, run your python

> script on that file, which writes the output to another file, and then open the

> output file in VFP.

I worked on an app for a customer that required parsing a lot of irregular text. Regular expressions handled it fine, but using the VB-based control that comes with VFP was very slow. I wrote a routine to do what you describe: write to a temp file, call a Python script that would do the processing and write the output to a different file, then have VFP read in the results and proceed from their. It was amazing how much faster that solution was compared to the "built-in" VB control, even with all that extra shelling.

-- Ed Leafe

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