Greetings, I've created a Python binding for libsword via SIP[1]. The code is here:
http://github.com/natural/sword-sip The binding is mostly complete, certainly the larger classes and methods. I'd like it if folks who use the SWIG bindings could also try to build this binding with SIP and send me any feedback, good, bad or indifferent. As to why: SWIG is great for what it does, but what it produces isn't the most natural for Python programmers. My motivation was to replace code like this: >>> install_source.directory = SWBuf("/some/path") With code like this: >>> install_source.directory = "/some/path" SIP provides this by mapping to and from native python types where instructed. I've got it working for SWBuf, ModMap, SectionMap, ConfigEntMap, etc. Another minor benefit is size: the resulting sword.so file is 1454499 bytes on my system, whereas _Sword.so is 1949642. The SIP bindings require the SIP runtime, which is another 70k, but that dependency is shared if your project is already using it (and it's smaller than the Sword.py helper used by _Sword.so). troy [1] SIP: http://riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/ _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page