Re: Using the low-level API from Python / Please advise for WeasyPrint

[Simon Sapin <simon sapin exyr org>]

Le 05/10/2012 16:18, Simon Sapin a écrit :
> I think that the way forward is to switch to the low-level API. Could
> some introspection data be added to make it available from Python? Or
> should we write C and skip PyGObject? What about HarfBuzz, how is it
> relevant for this use case?

I found the answer. It’s CFFI.

https://cffi.readthedocs.org/

Using Pango with CFFI:
https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/blob/4f9f486ef/weasyprint/text.py

Now I can use PangoAttribute objects (which is much saner than 
generating markup) even though the relevant APIs do not have usable 
introspection data.


See also cairocffi: http://packages.python.org/cairocffi/

Cheers,
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Simon Sapin