Re: [Vala] Python bindings for Vala code

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

Arc Riley wrote:
> Do you aim to provide a Pythonic API with this?
i hate python, but why do you need an api?
> IE; mapping collections to Python collections (tuple, list, dict), 
> iterators, nested namespaces, pydocs, etc?
This is swig task. From valaswig point they should be all supported at 
some point.
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:58 PM, pancake <pancake youterm com 
> <mailto:pancake youterm com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm developing valaswig aiming to provide swig (perl, ruby,
>     python...) bindings for vala and vapi code.
>
>     It's usable, but still needs so much love. I will release 0.1 next
>     month, but you can get a copy from
>
>     Hg clone http://hg.youterm.com/valaswig
>
>     If somebody is interested on it, let me know. I think dynamic Lang
>     bindings for vala can be a good point :)
>
>
>     On Feb 7, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Abderrahim Kitouni
>     <a kitouni gmail com <mailto:a kitouni gmail com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         2010/2/6 rastersoft <raster rastersoft com
>         <mailto:raster rastersoft com>>:
>
>             Is possible to do Python bindings for Vala classes? This
>             is, accessing
>             vala classes from Python. Yes, I know that it should be as
>             "easy" than
>             doing it for a GObject class, but what I mean is if there
>             is a tutorial
>             or similar, and, what's more important, how to get
>             advantage of GObject
>             Introspection (which, I presume, should simplify the work).
>
>         Using gobject-introspection [1], it should actually be easier
>         than for
>         a C GObject class. When compiling, pass '--gir Foo-1.0.gir' to
>         valac
>         (replace Foo with your namespace), it should generate a
>         correct gir as
>         of vala 0.7.10. Compile it using g-ir-compiler and install
>         both the
>         gir and the compiled typelib (in ${g-i-prefix}/share/gir-1.0 and
>         ${g-i-prefix}/lib/girepository-1.0 respectively) and you should be
>         able to use it from gobject-introspection aware bindings
>         generators.
>         You probably want PyGI [2], it works mostly ok, with the
>         exception of
>         callbacks and irtual methods.
>
>         [1] http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection
>         [2] http://live.gnome.org/PyGI
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