[Pythonmac-SIG] Getting data out of FileMaker fast

[Bill Bedford]

At 12:30 pm +0200 27/03/00, Pieter Claerhout wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>what is the fastest way to transfer data from FileMaker Pro on the Macintosh
>to Python. I made a set of databases in Filemaker, and I want to convert these
>to static HTML using Python, but this has to be quite fast.
>
>I tested it with the FileMaker vs Python package from LettError, but 
>it's not fast
>enough for what I want to do with it. Any idea on how to speed up things?

I haven't done this with FileMaker, but Hypercard cant be just as 
slow responding to Appleevents. The trick is to write a Filemaker 
script to do what you have to and wrap it in a 'doscript' appleevent 
called from python.

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