Knowing how to call a specific function via PyGI

[Daniel Drake <dsd laptop org>]

Hi,

When writing apps that use PyGI, what steps do people take to figure
out the exact way that code should be expressed in relation to the
original C API?

I know there are some good notes here:
http://live.gnome.org/PyGObject/IntrospectionPorting
but even after only writing a couple of small test apps, I ran into
difficulties that weren't addressed on that page.

For example, constants have tripped me up. I translated
GTK_STOCK_GO_FORWARD into PyGI by guesswork on first attempt at
gtk.STOCK_GO_FORWARD. But translating WEBKIT_LOAD_COMMITTED (from
http://webkitgtk.org/reference/WebKitWebFrame.html#WebKitLoadStatus)
really had me guessing hard for a good few minutes. In the end I found
it: WebKit.LoadStatus.COMMITTED

I'm wondering if there is a more systematic way to make such
translations so that my coding process does not rely so heavily on
guesswork. I imagine that if I had a simple list of all classes,
methods and constants available in
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/WebKit-3.0.typelib then I could have solved
the above problem immediately (by simply searching the list for
'COMMITTED' or something).

Thanks,
Daniel