[PATCH] Python bindings (with much of the core api)

[Mark Jenkins]

Jeff Green wrote:
> The best bet might be to put the non-language specific stuff into a
> separate file (it would mostly consist of common typedefs and function
> declarations) and have the language specific interface files %include
> that file.

> I think doing it this way would work well, I'm just slightly reluctant
> to do it because it would involve mucking around with things unrelated
> to the Python bindings.

Thanks for investigating this.

The plan seems fine, and I think we should give it a try and muck with
the needed stuff outside of src/optional/python-bindings in ParIT's
private repo for awhile until this is ready. In fact, if as you suggest
there are changes needed outside of src/optional/python-bindings that
will make GnuCash's SWIG interface files more flexible, generic, and
useful to our use case, perhaps you and I should send in a patch with
just that and only that first.


> that file. There would also still need to be separate typemaps for more
> complex types like GList since they need to be handled in a particular

Yeah proper GList support is going to be fun. I'm going to want to see a
python wrapper class that implements the python list api. :)

I wonder if there is any overlap with this project:
https://launchpad.net/pyglib


Mark