Re: Learning the Python API - early questions

At 16-10-2003 23:29, Russell Yanofsky wrote:
>The swig wrapper looks straighforward, although it's not clear why you need
>so many helper functions. Couldn't a user write
>
> all_dirents.size()
>
>instead of:
>
> svncpp.lenDirentList( all_dirents )
>
>- Russ

SWIG does not generate code at all for the methods on the templates.
You get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "test_ls.py", line 29, in ?
     main( sys.argv )
   File "test_ls.py", line 17, in main
     print all_dirents.size()
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'size'

I solved that with all the little functions. Not sure why its seen as a string.

I'm going to try using my PyCXX lib to remove the need for the small functions
and allow iterators to work. PyCXX is on http://sourceforge.net/projects/cxx/
and will allow a pythonic API to be created.

Barry

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Received on Sat Oct 18 21:16:26 2003