[Distutils] VBScript puzzle

[Jess Austin]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:21 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> That's really cute!

Glad you like it!  I wrote another version, this time using
WshShell.Exec() rather than WshShell.Run().  This way everything
happens in the same terminal, although from random googling it seems
that Exec() may be rather racy (the fact that you can't just hook
WshScriptExec.StdOut to WScript.StdOut is kind of pathetic).  I've
also added some argument handling:


C:\>cscript bdist.js Python26\python.exe foo bar
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

hello from python
arguments: foo, bar

C:\>


Script:

4 // 3; '''
;
if (WScript.Arguments.length < 1)
{
  WScript.Echo("usage: " + WScript.ScriptName + " <path to python> [args for" +
               " python]");
  WScript.Quit();
}
var args = "";
for (i=1; i<WScript.Arguments.length; i++)
{
  args = args + " " + WScript.Arguments.Item(i);
}
var oExec = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
                   .Exec(WScript.Arguments.Item(0) + " " +
                         WScript.ScriptFullName + args);
while (oExec.Status == 0)
{
  while (!oExec.StdOut.AtEndOfStream)
  {
    WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(oExec.StdOut.ReadLine());
  }
  while (!oExec.StdErr.AtEndOfStream)
  {
    WScript.StdErr.WriteLine(oExec.StdErr.ReadLine());
  }
  WScript.Sleep(100);
} /*
'''
# start of python script
from sys import argv
print("hello from python")
print("arguments: " + ", ".join(argv[1:]))
# end of python script */