Re: Loading dia module in python

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 21.01.2009 13:52, Philip Cavaco wrote:
> [...]
> I would like to load a .dia image in python outside of the Dia python
> console. 
You could write a plug-in for Dia in Python - see 
http://projects.gnome.org/dia/python.html but currently a script using

import dia

will only work inside of Dia. The first Dia Python bindings are based on 
Python running embedded in Dia. See: 
http://docs.python.org/extending/embedding.html

> I have downloaded the source but can't find any clear
> documentation about how to build Dia using the --with-python flag. 
Huh? You pass in the flag and the python plug-in gets build. For more 
information just use the souce ;)

But indeed there is no dedicated documentation about how Dia is embedding 
Python - can't even point you to the documentation that it does.

Some more information available with the announcement of my effort to 
create stand-alone bindings:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2007-March/msg00092.html

But even if you can make it work the requested functionality to load a .dia 
file is not available there yet, because that is implemented in 
app/load_save.c -  but just part of lib/ is accessible with the second 
binding effort.
All import/export formats implemented as pug-ins should work from the 
standalone bindings, see: 
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/dia/trunk/bindings/test.py?view=log

> If I
> can get this working would it install the dia module into pythons
> site-packages so that it can be loaded easily in python?
No, see above.

        Hans

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