Re: [xml] Support for Python

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:51:20PM -0800, Dave Kuhlman wrote:
> >   And doesn't seem to produce a .py . It produce pydom_wrap.c, which then
> > compiles and load but I'm unable to load anything :
>
> I think the trick is to add the flag "-shadow" when you run swig. 
> Here is the command line that I use:
>
> swig -python -shadow -I/w2/XML/Libxml/libxml2-2.4.13/include/libxml pydom.i

  The same here except for the include path

> And here is my pydom.i:

  Mine is based on yours, very close.

> > > > > import pydom
> > > > > doc = pydom.xmlParseFile("test1.xml")
> > > > > print 'version: %s' % pydom.x2c(doc.version)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > AttributeError: version
>
> OK. I don't understand this either.  I'm using Python 2.2, but I do
> not believe there is anything in it that requires version 2.2.
>
> I tried it with Python 2.1 (after rebuilding the .so with Python
> 2.1 include files).  My tree walk test runs OK.

  What version of SWIG ? I have swig-1.3a5 installed. Older versions
had a lot of troubles parsing the include files.

> >   tried version_get which from my reading of the C code should work,
> > but it fails too ... weird. I have tried with both 1.5 and 2.1 without
> > success.
>
> SWIG does some "name mangling" (at least when I generate shadow
> classes) to keep methods in separate classes unique.  For the
> xmlDoc, in my generated code, I believe the function is called
> xmlDoc_version_get.

  yep seen that but for me it generates a version_get and version_set
but I can't get access to them either.

  More testing is definitely needed,

Daniel

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