Python bug?

[Richard Dale]

On Wed, 02 May 2001, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Richard Dale wrote:
> > On Wed, 02 May 2001, Marcel Strittmattery wrote:
> > It's still at the 'proof of concept' stage - there are only about 4 methods
> > done I believe. But it uses the standard embedded python api, so all it needs
> > are more wrapped methods - it's going in the right direction...
> 
> I have implemented a new set of python bindings for DCOP last week.
> If I get this finished, this makes all DCOP interfaces immediately
> available from python, without any interface generator or so.
> In contrast to kdebindings/dcoppython, it also allows for user-
> defined marshallers implemented in python, so e.g. it is possible 
> to return even non-trivial classes like ParsedClass via DCOP.
This is very interesting/useful generally - do you think it would it be a good
candidate for adding to the kdebindings module? Dynamic languages like python
and java shouldn't need compile time IDL's to describe marshalling - it would
show up their advantage over C++. To do it automatically, you need to convert
overloaded C++ '>>' operators, to the equivalent python/java wrapper method
with a name, which the Qt/PyQt/KDE and java bindings don't do. I think C++
operator overloading is the language feature from hell, one of the ugliest
features of a pretty ugly language.

> > I've recently been looking at the Qt/KDE python bindings code, and it has
> > really good Qt support, but only KDE 1.x with 100 classess or so. I think a
> > proper KDE binding for 2.x needs around 300+ classes (I've done about 450 for
> > java). The SIP (Qt/KDE python bindings generator) stuff seems quite labour
> > intensive, and so a lot of work to do 400 classes. But perhaps we could use it
> > to do a useful subset.
> 
> I think having KApplication and KMainWindow would already be 
> nice. They provide most of the KDE look & feel. Qt/PyQt is
> already quite complete for itself.
Yes, but I was thinking of the KDevelop plugin api classes and associated UI
classes needed really, rather than wanting to write a complete app in python.

-- Richard

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