Re: Learning the Python API - early questions

Barry Scott wrote:
> Is could be fixed in the C API or the Python wrapper. If the C API
> converted misuse to error codes then the python would just throw
> python exceptions with ease.

Generally speaking, libraries can't detect when they are being misused. It's
possible to check for simple cases but only if you're willing to bloat the
code and take effort that might be better spent improving documentation and
simplifiying api's so the misuse doesn't happen in the first place. I am a
little sympathetic to the idea, though, because error messages probably make
a better impression on scripting language users than segfaults.

> Again the RapidSVN api may make this a lot easier. I'm watching for
> the patch to bring RapidSVN up to 0.30.0 compatibility.

Yeah, the RapidSVN API looks a lot less error prone. And they actually
mention swig on their homepage, http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/svncpp.html, so
it was probably designed to be swigified

- Russ

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Received on Tue Oct 14 23:41:31 2003