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

[Derek Atkins]

Mark Jenkins <mark at parit.ca> writes:

> 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.

Sounds good to me.

>> 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 think that's between you and python ;)

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

Possibly!  I was under the impression you were working with those
guys.  I guess I was wrong in assuming that?  (Note that I haven't
looked at their code so I don't know how good it is or whether
it's in a shape capable of being integrated into gnucash).

> Mark

-derek

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