05:36 <Hunar> Hello :) I tried experimenting with pipes, wrote this print("Hello", input()) to a.py and in pil I entered (in '(python "a.py") (prinl "hunar") (line T)) but this didn't work, prinl uses stdout instead of the pipe, isn't the pipe bi-directional? or I understood the whole thing wrong :)

06:19 <abu[m]> Hi Hunar, yes, 'in' is a single pipe (i.e.input)

06:20 <abu[m]> 'pipe' can be used

06:22 <Hunar> Ah, that's the mistake

06:23 <abu[m]> (pipe (out '(python ...) (prinl ...)) (line ...

06:27 <Hunar> :D thanks, I try to make generic (python ...) function to use python from pil .. let's see how far I can get

06:29 <abu[m]> Good. You may also experiment with (setq *Python (pipe (exec "python" "foo")))

06:30 <abu[m]> Then (out *Python (prinl ...)) and (in *Python ..., but be careful not te lock it up

06:30 <abu[m]> (in *Python ...) may be better in an asynchronous 'task' then

06:31 <abu[m]> As you know, PilBox uses this in communicating with the Android JRE

06:32 <Hunar> :D I'll try it

06:59 <Hunar> how to close the pipe *Python

07:00 <abu[m]> (close *Python)

07:01 <abu[m]> 😉

07:02 <Hunar> Ah 😅 I was searching in (doc 'pipe)

07:06 <abu[m]> I tweeted a few examples, e.g. https://twitter.com/PicoLispREPL/status/1527904142714363905?s=20&t=phLtk98wc9dJs0MStGNUaw

07:22 <abu[m]> It is important that the exec'ed program always flushes stdout after each reply

07:22 <abu[m]> Most programs do that automatically after a newline

07:29 <abu[m]> But usually only if the current TTY is a terminal

07:36 <abu[m]> For example, this creates a pipe to a Pil process: (setq P (pipe (exec "pil" "-while (read) (println (eval @)) (flush)" "-bye")))

07:36 <abu[m]> Note the (flush)

07:50 <tankf33der> https://git.envs.net/mpech/tankf33der/raw/branch/master/rec-list.l

07:50 <tankf33der> Can not write function mike to process list recursively

07:50 <tankf33der> so frustrating

07:50 <tankf33der> even do not what to google

08:50 <Hunar> Thanks for the info :) I'm sure I'll encounter it

08:51 <Hunar> since python has eval() it made my job very easy, but I don't know if I should write the logic in pil or python

08:51 <Hunar> I can do most of the work in python, I think text parsing is easier there

08:52 <Hunar> currently I want to (glue) some text while keeping quotes. (glue ", " "hello" 1) I want something like \"hello\", 1

08:54 <abu[m]> Perhaps use 'sym'?

08:56 <Hunar> looks good :)

09:16 <abu[m]> Hi tankf33der!

09:16 <abu[m]> Process the list in which way?

09:17 <abu[m]> Recurse on sublists?

09:17 <Hunar> It got complicated in pil, So I'll do everything in python.

09:17 <Hunar> I have a small issue, when using the pipe

09:17 <Hunar> (prinl '(1 "hello")) sends 1hello to python

09:17 <Hunar> but using (println '(1 "hello")) still sends the same thing, instead of sending (1 "hello")

09:18 <abu[m]> No, 'println' sends differently

09:20 <Hunar> I want to send the (read) able from to python and parse it there

09:20 <abu[m]> Better first write all to a file and then look at it

09:24 <abu[m]> So (println (1 "hello")) will definitely send the string "(1 \"hello\")"

09:24 <abu[m]> Perhaps the receiving end is wrong?

09:28 <Hunar> I don't know what is going on, the python file is just print(inout())

09:28 <Hunar> sorry input()

09:29 <abu[m]> No idea, I don't know Python

10:20 <Hunar> Aaah, I was (read)ing the result that python was sending back, one hour wasted 😅

10:23 <abu[m]> oh ;)