Re: [Vala] Python bindings for Vala code

[Arc Riley <arcriley gmail com>]

Do you aim to provide a Pythonic API with this?

IE; mapping collections to Python collections (tuple, list, dict),
iterators, nested namespaces, pydocs, etc?

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:58 PM, pancake <pancake youterm com> wrote:

> I'm developing valaswig aiming to provide swig (perl, ruby, python...)
> bindings for vala and vapi code.
>
> It's usable, but still needs so much love. I will release 0.1 next month,
> but you can get a copy from
>
> Hg clone http://hg.youterm.com/valaswig
>
> If somebody is interested on it, let me know. I think dynamic Lang bindings
> for vala can be a good point :)
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Abderrahim Kitouni <a kitouni gmail com>
> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
> > 2010/2/6 rastersoft <raster rastersoft com>:
> >
> > > Is possible to do Python bindings for Vala classes? This is, accessing
> > > vala classes from Python. Yes, I know that it should be as "easy" than
> > > doing it for a GObject class, but what I mean is if there is a tutorial
> > > or similar, and, what's more important, how to get advantage of GObject
> > > Introspection (which, I presume, should simplify the work).
> > Using gobject-introspection [1], it should actually be easier than for
> > a C GObject class. When compiling, pass '--gir Foo-1.0.gir' to valac
> > (replace Foo with your namespace), it should generate a correct gir as
> > of vala 0.7.10. Compile it using g-ir-compiler and install both the
> > gir and the compiled typelib (in ${g-i-prefix}/share/gir-1.0 and
> > ${g-i-prefix}/lib/girepository-1.0 respectively) and you should be
> > able to use it from gobject-introspection aware bindings generators.
> > You probably want PyGI [2], it works mostly ok, with the exception of
> > callbacks and irtual methods.
> >
> > [1] http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection
> > [2] http://live.gnome.org/PyGI
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