Re: Python CL Command Wrappers -- MIDRANGE-L

Richard,

Thanks for your reply.

In the UK we natively use 285 but as chance would have it the main two
clients I've worked with over the last 25 years have different CCSIDs on
their Dev boxes vs Prod boxes where one is 37 and the other is 285.

It's caused a few headaches around some fairly common characters like one
of the square brackets and $, £ maybe even # - I can't quite recall off the
top of my head.
So I'll have a look and probably switch it over to 285.

Thanks for your notes re the PYPATH. When I get a chance I'll have a think
about how best to fit my venv requirements into that.
best regards,
Craig

On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 17:00, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hmm. Good question. I have always used 37, but I'm not sure what others
would recommend for UK.

Not sure if you need to change anything in source members unless you plan
to pass any special characters through the parameters.

You could always open the source members in RDI and do a save as to a 285
based source file. Not sure if you can convert when doing a CPYSRCF
perhaps ?

The PYRUNC CL is really essentially just composing the python command line
to run, executing it and returning data via STDOUT. Along with some extra
validation.

I would probably do something like the PYPATH command does to pre-set any
of your search paths before running the PYRUN command. Then those paths are
passed thru from the IBMi job calling the Python app and your special env
should get handled.

Or create your own variation of PYPATH that set's the path with ADDENVVAR
or export on the QSH command line.

Hope that makes sense.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phn: (612) 315-1745

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message: 1
date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:27:52 +0100
from: Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Python CL Command Wrappers

Hi Richard,

Thanks so much for posting and making your Python CL Wrapper available.
I have a couple of small questions if you have a moment some time.

What would be your CCSID recommendation for someone living in the UK?
Would it make sense to scan your PYONI/SOURCE file and change and CCSID
37s to 285?
( I wouldn't just do a blanket scan and replace... I can see there are few
references to "37" which are just text or nothing to do with CCSIDs)

Also, I'm running Python 3.6.8 in a virtual environment at the moment. I
used --system-site-packages to point to the yum install to gain access to
things like iToolkit which aren't easily installed into a venv (for me at
least...)
Is there a recommended way to use your wrapper with virtual environments?

thanks kindly,
Craig

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