On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:09:55 +0200, Filip Dreger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My Question: >> Swig offers some great features but is to basic for us. Is there >> another program that creates more readble code that can be easily >> edited? How much work is it to write our own wrappers? > > Not too much, and practicaly not at all if you want to wrap procedures > (not objects or types): > - marshaslling an argument list from Python to C and from C to Python > takes exactly 1 line of code, > - handling errors takes 2 lines of code (unless you want to do > something fancy with them; I mean just catching an exception and > getting the error message). > - entry in the PyMethodDef is one simple line > Bottomline: you need 5 additional lines of C code per procedure to > make it usable from Python. > Unless you have hundreds of procedures, there is no point in using > special tools to do that. Especially if you need full control over the > results.
My experience too. At least if you are a C programmer. If it gets hard, it's because the things you wrap do something funky: take complex memory structures as arguments, have odd resource management, etc. A tool cannot help you with that anyway. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <jgrahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ algonet.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
