[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I work on a project that is built entirely using python and Tkinter. > We are at the point where we would like to give access to our > functionality to others via some sort of API. People who would use > our API develop in all kinds of languages from C/C++ to Pascal. > > Ideas that come to mind that allow us to build such an API are: > > 1) Require others to imbed the python interpreter via the c API to be > able to utilize our functionality. > 2) Build an XML RPC interface around our code. > 3) Rewrite our code base in C/C++, which should make it accessible to > all modern languages. > > I'm looking for more and potentially better ideas that will allow us > to offer an API to our customers without having to throw away or redo > a lot of the python code that we have already written. > > Thanks in advance, > Dean >
You don't say what your operating system is, so I'll give an answer in case it is Windows: I went through something similar recently and decided that writing a COM wrapper around my Python API was the best answer (and it turned out to be pretty easy). I was easily able to call from VB, Delphi and Python COM. I haven't tried C/C++ yet, but expect no problems. I think COM is now the way to go (unless you do .NET). -Larry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
