RPN calculator

[dfay]

A simple RPN calculator that works like the built-in calculator.  Requires spaces as delimiters between elements in the expression.  Built using deanishe's Alfred python library.

 

e.g.

 

19 2.14 + 4.5 2 4.3 / - *

 

produces an Alfred result:

 

85.2974418605

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There is a single keyword:

 

rpn

 

Download link: 

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ay1z2mubifcun6/RPN Calculator.alfredworkflow?dl=0

 

2018-07-10: updated with working link

2020-07-26 updated with latest version of deanishe's Alfred python library.

Edited July 26, 2020 by dfay

[curmudgeon]

Does this workflow still work on Alfred3?

 

Link is broken. Would love to get a copy!

 

Thanks!

 

[dfay]

Haha it only took four years for someone to take an interest in this   I've updated the link -- hope you find it useful.

[JimmyTheSaint]

I think it needs another update. I get this warning.

[deanishe]

6 hours ago, JimmyTheSaint said:

I think it needs another update. I get this warning.

 

And why don't you follow the instructions to fix the workflow?

[dfay]

No worries I’ll sort it out and post updated version.

 

@done(2020-07-26)

Edited July 26, 2020 by dfay

[Acidham]

Seems this workflow need some love 😀

[mmazour]

@dfay Thank you, thank you! I am in your debt. I literally upgraded Alfred just for this.  

 

When I'm on Slack and need to complete a sentence like "we frobnicated 6,122,849 doodads between 8:28 and 12:49, a rate of one million every..."  – which seems to be a lot of my life the past few weeks – there is nothing so useful as a good RPN calculator, and none so close to hand and fast to use as yours. Thank you.

[iApple]

@dfay, thanks for this workflow. FYI workflow needs "0" in front of decimal for it to work - for example "RPN 100 .1 *" would end up with wrong result, it needs "RPN 100 0.1 *". Is it by design or potential bug?

[dfay]

I'd like to say it's by design but it's actually an artifact of the crazy regular expression in rpn.py line 42:

 

ops = map(lambda y: y.replace(' ',''), re.split('\s|(?<!\d)[,.]|[,.](?!\d)',query))

 

 

[iApple]

Ok. Just have to be careful when entering decimal numbers, habit of keying without leading "0". Only discovered this "issue" when result came out too big. It interprets ".10" as "10" 😲

[iApple]

Hi

 

Updated OS to Ventura, now RPN workflow doesn't work. I have installed Python 3 so that could be reason?

 

My technical skill is 2 out of 100, playing around with settings trying to make it work.

 

Error message each run of RPN workflow

ERROR: RPN Calculator[Script Filter] Code 127: /bin/bash: python: command not found

 

Changed "language" to /usr/bin/python3 but getting this error

ERROR: RPN Calculator[Script Filter] Code 1: xcode-select: note: No developer tools were found, requesting install.
If developer tools are located at a non-default location on disk, use `sudo xcode-select --switch path/to/Xcode.app` to specify the Xcode that you wish to use for command line developer tools, and cancel the installation dialog.
See `man xcode-select` for more details.

 

Do I need to install developer tools? Where do I download if it is required? Don't want to end up mindlessly installing if not required.

 

Thanks

[dfay]

HI 

I just updated it and posted it at https://github.com/derickfay/AlfredRPN

this should work out of the  box on Ventura.

best

Derick

[iApple]

19 minutes ago, dfay said:

I just updated it and posted it at https://github.com/derickfay/AlfredRPN

Thanks Derick!

 

Unfortunately link doesn't work

[dfay]

Sorry - I hadn't changed the repo to be public - it is now.

[iApple]

42 minutes ago, dfay said:

Sorry - I hadn't changed the repo to be public - it is now.

Thanks Derick!

 

Not many appreciate the efficiency of RPN calculators.