Re: Python on i

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eric

I probably misunderstood, too - I read "routines" to mean system APIs - 
John explained what he meant in another post.

Cheers
Vern

On 2/12/2013 10:03 AM, DeLong, Eric wrote:
> I think he was saying somebody "brought back to life" an older (obsolete) version of a python class.  Maybe I misunderstood.
>
> -Eric
>
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>
> I'm just curious - which user space APIs are obsolete?
>
> As to difficult, I can't see anything much easier than navigating a user
> space with a pointer.
>
> But I can also imagine using the IFS APIs with a user space - just use
> path naming.
>
> Regards
> Vern
>
> On 2/11/2013 4:56 PM, John Yeung wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:27 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Unfortunately, iSeries Python doesn't have a convenient way of
> > > accessing user spaces, that I know of.  Someone had built one for an
> > > older version of Python, running on V5R2, using various APIs; but
> > > predictably, this can't be used for today's Python on today's i.
> > Coincidentally, I just learned that someone has ported the obsolete
> > user space routines (as well as a few other APIs) to run on the
> > current iSeries Python.  So in fact it's not too difficult to work
> > with user spaces in Python after all.  (In my opinion, easier in
> > Python than in RPG.)
> >
> > John