Re: [Gimp-developer] Improving pygimp documentation

["Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion mpc com br>]

On 29 March 2013 23:01, Sean Munkel <seanmunkel gmail com> wrote:
> After picking this up again I've run into a problem. I'm not really
> sure how to get this to replace the current gimp.PDB with its wrapped
> version. Am I correct in thinking that the best way to do this is to
> rename the gimp.so C library to be _gimp.so and then importing
> everything from there in a python file gimp.py and do the wrapping
> step in there?

It would be  the "correct thing to do"-
but in the process of doing so, I  like to offload as much of the hard-coded C
bindings in there to Python itself - as there is some proof of concept
in the Summer of Code Python branch.

And...doing so, would also imply in having to put tests in place for
that stuff -
that should definitely come first.


  js
 -><-


> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Sean Munkel <seanmunkel gmail com> wrote:
> > > > One
> > > > way to get around this issue of __doc__ not being display is to
> > > > actually create a regular python function for each procedure. Instead
> > > > of using gimp.PDB you would have to wrap it in a class that will use
> > > > its methods but hook into __getattr__. Inside of __getattr__ it would
> > > > create a function that would then be able to have a __doc__ that would
> > > > be displayed by help.
> > > >
> > > > https://gist.github.com/smunkel/5103533
> > >
> > > Yes - that would be more or less the way to go -
> > > Or that, or make each PDB callable object be in a separate class by
> > > itself.
> > >
> > > Did the code in the link above work for you? (I have not tried it yet)
> > It isn't properly dealing with Nones everywhere yet, but for the most part
> > its
> > working correctly.
> >
> > --Sean Munkel
>
>
>
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