Re: Generating spreadsheet from a script

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:40:59PM +0100, Josep Mon?s i Teixidor wrote:
> How do can I register a menu entry to run a python function in my script?
In the development version with bonobo enabled there is a new plugin
interface that allows you to do that.  I have not tried it from
python, but it aught to do the trick.
 
> I've read that the python plugin interface might not be stable and it's 
> not encouraged to use it to long-term things. In my case this is not a 
> problem because I need it for data manipulation once... I won't need it 
> in the function... but is this still true? Is it going to change? Will 
> perl substitute python or will both be mantained?

Both will definitely be maintained.  The goal is to provide a solid
api.  The choice of language is secondary.  The python api was a
proof of concept, as was the initial CORBA bindings long ago.  I'm
hoping that with John's experience developing an api for perl's
excel::write module we can develop a solid api that can then get
bindings in python, CORBA, and anything people want.