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Re: Python bindings -noproxy flag

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-05-08 02:02:57 CEST

Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp@weitershausen.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> why is the -noproxy flag passed to SWIG when building the python
> bindings? This forces SWIG not to build shadow classes for structs.
>
> I think that pointers and accessor functions are not something that
> python programmers want to get involved with, not even when they are
> using bindings to a C API. SWIG already has the feature of building
> classes which can even be subclassed to add new functionality. Why
> aren't we using that feature?

This has been asked before, and I don't remember the answer indicating
that there was any really intentional reason for this decision. If
removing the -noproxy make our bindings better, sell us on the idea,
and you can bet we won't object to implementing that improvement.

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