Re: [Vala] support for Python C API

[Arc Riley <arcriley gmail com>]

If you want to conform to a fairly strict API design, and you don't care if
the result is non-Pythonic, you can always use PyGIR.  IMHO, the last thing
the Python community needs is more Python packages with non-Pythonic APIs
like pygtk offers.

The point of Python support in Vala is to be able to support a Pythonic API
to Vala/Genie code.  Most importantly is operator overloading, which Vala
does not support.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Celil <celil kj gmail com> wrote:

> In the long term it may be nice to add support for automatic generation
> of a python module, so that one could do something like
>
>    valac --python mymodule mymodule.vala
>
> to obtain a compiled python module that can be loaded from python, and
> have the same classes and methods as the vala library.  Maybe something
> similar to valaswig, but specifically geared towards python.
>
> This would be especially nice for Genie users, as the two languages are
> quite similar, and one would be able to seamlessly integrate Genie code
> with Python code - tapping into the greater performance and execution
> speed of Genie, while not sacrificing the vast libraries that are
> available in Python.
>
> Celil
>
> On 06/18/2010 09:04 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
> > The problem is greater than a missing vapi.  The PyObject system needs
> > to be properly mapped for the vapi to be useful, and that requires
> > support in code.
> >
> > I've been advocating that we need this for some time.
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Celil <celil kj gmail com
> > <mailto:celil kj gmail com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I am writing Python bindings to a library that is written in Vala.
> >     Currently, I need to output the header files, and write the
> >     bindings in
> >     C. However, tt would be very nice if it was possible to write then
> >     in Vala.
> >
> >     Is anybody writing a vala vapi for "Python.h"? It would be pretty
> >     sweet
> >     to be able to write python extensions in vala.
> >
> >     Celil
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