Thanks a lot Allan, I'll try that approach. On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist(a)textmate.org>wrote;wrote: -- -------------------------------- www.michelepasin.org/

Use YAML to serialize your objected into a string. require 'yaml' os.environ['TM_PROJECT_UUID'] = YAML.dump(someobject) … someobject = YAML.load(os.environ['TM_PROJECT_UUID'] ) If someobject is just a composite of standard ruby classes then this will work fine, but if it contains your own class definitions you will need to add a method to code the ivars such as def to_yaml_properties %w{ @var1 @var2 } end Dave. From: Michele Pasin <michele.pasin@gmail.com<mailto:michele.pasin@gmail.com>> Reply-To: TextMate users <textmate@lists.macromates.com<mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com>> Date: Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:41 To: TextMate users <textmate@lists.macromates.com<mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com>> Subject: [TxMt] Re: Creating a global variable via bundle command (using Python) hi again just a clarification: when I do this os.environ['TM_PROJECT_UUID'] = someobject I get an error saying that only strings are accepted as possible values. is there any other approach for storing a non-string in the environment? many tx, mikele On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist@textmate.org<mailto:mailinglist@textmate.org>> wrote: On 11 Aug 2013, at 19:02, Michele Pasin wrote: […] each time I send a command, the socket is obviously re-created; I wondered if I TextMate provides a mechanism to save the 'sock' binding in the current environment - so that I can reuse it later within other commands. Not per se, but TextMate does give you a TM_DOCUMENT_UUID and TM_PROJECT_UUID variable. The former is unique per document and the latter is unique per project (window). You can use these as keys into shared storage (such as files in TMPDIR) to store things that you wish to associate with a single document or project. Presently though there is no cleanup callback, so if you spawn a server process for a document or project, you should have it shutdown automatically if it hasn’t seen any activity for some amount of time. _______________________________________________ textmate mailing list textmate@lists.macromates.com<mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com> http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate -- -------------------------------- www.michelepasin.org<http://www.michelepasin.org/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Corporation (UK) Limited Registered No. 1134945 (England) Registered Office: Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ VAT No: 860 2173 47 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies.

Hi Allan, apologies for resurrecting this very old thread, but I'm kind of stuck again. In short, I'm developing a bundle for sending messages to the Extempore compiler (http://extempore.moso.com.au/; http://benswift.me/2012/09/26/interacting-with-the-extempore-compiler/) which should happen via a TCP socket connection. Ideally, I'd like to create the following commands: a) start the server [done, see https://github.com/lambdamusic/extempore-bundle] b) set up a reusable socket connection object c) evaluate expressions by sending them to the server using the connection object I've set up environment variables in Textmate to hold my connection settings; also, I've created a variable called EXTEMPORE_CONNECTION which in theory should keep the pickled version of my server socket. Here's my Python command: #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os, socket import pickle xtm_host = str(os.environ.get('EXTEMPORE_HOST', "127.0.0.1")) xtm_port = int(os.environ.get('EXTEMPORE_PORT', 7099)) sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) HOST = xtm_host PORT = xtm_port sock.connect((HOST, PORT)) data = sock.recv(1024) print(data) # welcome message, works. os.environ['EXTEMPORE_CONNECTION'] = pickle.dumps(sock, -1) # *fails* > The problem is, Python's pickle doesn't support all kinds of objects, and sockets are among those (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2204155/why-am-i-getting-an-error-about-… ) So I wonder if there's another way of approaching the problem; or, if by any chance, the same approach done via another language (eg Ruby) would not encounter any limitation.. Thanks in advance for the help, Michele -------- Michele Pasin Email: michele.pasin(a)gmail.com Web: www.michelepasin.org -------- On 14 August 2013 at 09:55, Allan Odgaard &lt;mailinglist(a)textmate.org&gt; wrote:

Thanks Allan - I (wrongly) assumed that it was good practice to avoid reopening the connection each time. Things do work fine with your suggested solution then.. now moving on to grammars and scopes :-) Best, m ---- Michele Pasin http://www.michelepasin.org On 3 October 2015 at 12:15, Allan Odgaard &lt;mailinglist(a)textmate.org&gt; wrote: