I really only plan posting about once a week. I've already decided that the next "real" post will work on cleaning up the Vr script (which has come to be known as fix_sym_z) I mentioned earlier to make it much more useful and fully independent of the drive functions. However this quick one is just too cool to wait. But just in case the corpscon stuff is totally worthless to many folks who plan to write python in Vr, let me pass along one of my favorite tips, as pasted from one of my utility modules (dsutil). While the comment sections explain what it does, you may want to look up lambda, though it isn't necessary. If you understand printf, you understand this function.

printf = lambda fmt,*args: sys.stdout.write(fmt%args)
'''
c like implemetation of printf, for example:
dsutil.printf("this is %s test with the number %.2lf",'a',9)
yields...
this is a test with the number 9.00
'''

fprintf = lambda afile,fmt,*args: afile.write(fmt%args)
'''
Same as printf but like c's fprintf sends output to open file

usage: dsutil.fprintf(AnOpenFile,"format",Values)
'''

Tom Blankenship is pretty high in my relatively short list of amazing programmers I actually know and can glean information from. As usual, if it is a matter of education on coding practices, Tom was fast to weigh in. The corpscondll is pretty well documented but my problem was that I didn't know (and didn't know that I didn't know) how to pass a c style double pointer using c_double(). Tom put together a working script that has all the information necessary to incorporate corpscon transfomations into production programs, is this stuff amazing or what.

As always a big thank you and hats off to Tom.