Re: Controlling gnumeric from Python

[Adrian Custer <acuster nature berkeley edu>]

Hey all,

Happy new year! 

Jody, 
     any chance you could flesh out this take on the "state of python in
Gnumeric"? If so I'll turn it into a FAQ answer for all the interest in
scripting and python.

cheers to all,
--adrian

PS I was just reminded of Chema while taking to a friend, using him as
an example of a presence in our comunity whose passing affected us all.
Thought I'd mention him as a celebration of the humanity of this wierd
GNOME community.



On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 15:41 +0000, John Gill wrote:
> Alexey Goldin wrote: 
> > Ok, another trick question :-)
> >
> > What is libgnumeric and where do I find it?
> >   
> Sorry about that -- Jody has been mentioning libgnumeric for a while
> now, I suspect it is still partially vapourware.
>
> Gnumeric is built as a model/view/controller + my understanding is
> that Jody was working towards splitting out the interface to the model
> part of this to libgnumeric.
>
> The idea being that you don't need a gui to talk to the model, if for
> example you are some sort of script.
>
> Once libgnumeric exists then the next thing to do would be to create
> wrappers for everyone's favourite scripting language.   The python
> console would use these wrappers to interact with the model (and hence
> the current view in the GUI).   Stanalone python  scripts would be
> able to  use the libgnumeric  interface to  read/write/modify
> gnumeric sheets  without a GUI.
>
> The py-gnumeric.c code you are working with is a much earlier attempt
> to produce python wrappers for gnumeric.  For a long time this has
> come with warnings that the API is nothing like fixed + that is one
> major reason why it hasn't had more work done on it.
>
> Basically, the project has been waiting for someone with the time and
> energy to work out the API.   I think scripting is very high on Jody's
> wish-list for 1.5, so things might be about to change very soon.
>
> Meanwhile, one other thing you might like to investigate is py-func.py
> -- this is an example of how to extend gnumeric with your own
> functions written in python -- no substitute for full python
> scripting, but if you just want to knock up some custom functions then
> a good way to go.
>
> John 
>  
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