On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, [ISO-8859-1] "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> Jason> You may want to just let it die.. I have finished the first
> Jason> half of my work on making a python-apt wrapper which
> Jason> includes at least these modules from scriptlib:
>
> This looks certainly better than dpkg-python...
Well, it is what APT runs on, and I've always thought APT's source was
pretty reasonable :>
> But, please rename those dpkg_* modules. I'd like
I was mearly listing the equivilents from the current dpkg-python. What I
have done is simply put everything under the apt_pkg module - this is
cheap since it is a binary module.
> (Underscores are ugly...)
I usually use -'s for apt-pkg, but python thinks that means minus I think.
> [...]
>
> Jason> Here is a simple example for some of the functions:
> >>>> import apt_pkg,apt_inst;
> >>>> Foo =
> apt_pkg.ParseSection(apt_inst.debExtractControl(open("/tmp/dpkg-python_0.1-3.0.deb","r")))
> >>>> print Foo.keys()
> Jason> ['Package', 'Version', 'Section', 'Priority', 'Architecture',
> 'Depends',
> Jason> 'Installed-Size', 'Maintainer', 'Description', 'Source']
> >>>> print apt_pkg.ParseDepends(Foo["Depends"]);
> Jason> [[('python-base', '1.5-1', '>=')], [('dpkg', '1.4.0.8', '>=')]]
> >>>> print apt_pkg.RewriteSection(Foo,apt_pkg.RewritePackageOrder,[]);
> Jason> Package: dpkg-python
> Jason> Priority: extra
> [...]
>
> *Very* nice indeed... now if only we could take a closer look (apt-get
> install python-apt, that is ;-)
CVS apt has packages (aliencode branch) - but I have not produced suitable
documentation or completed the bindings I want to have. Without a good
grounding in C++ you may have problems clearly understanding the Python
binary module.
Jason
