[ale] [OT] Calling Python from C ABI compatible languages

[Richard Bronosky]

I'm pretty sure that git can interact with bzr and hg. The github guys
made sure of it.

On 9/23/10, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> On 09/23/2010 03:05 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>> I know that this is technically off-topic for this list.  However, I'm
>> faced with something of an interesting problem, and I'm wondering if
>> anyone here has ever had something similar.  If anything, this is one of
>> the reasons I _really_ dislike non-compiled programming languages.
>>
>> I need to create a piece of software built around the GNU Bazaar
>> revision control system, but it is written in Python.
>
> When you say built around, what does that mean? Does most of the
> functionality of the software you plan to write involve interacting with
> Bazaar?
>
>> Python is not an
>> option for the system I am working on, and so there seems to me to be a
>> bit of a problem.
>
> When you say system, are you referring to the hardware your software
> will run on or to the software you are writing? I'm guessing you meant
> the latter since you talked about calling python code from C below,
> which implies that your hardware can run a python interpreter.
>
> If you mean the hardware, I'm curious why. The only thing I can think of
> is a small device without enough memory to run a python interpreter. If
> you mean the software, then it sounds like you either need to
>
> 1) Reimplement bazaar in C
> 2) Chose another DVCS to interact with. The first thing that came to
> mind is git, since it's written in C, but I don't think git is
> implemented as a library
> 3) Rethink python not being an option
>
> [snip]
>
>> I _guess_ I'm looking for some method to generate meaningful wrappers
>> around Python libraries such that they can be used from another
>> programming language.  Hell, if there were a Python front-end for GCC
>> that could just compile Python code into normal binary code that I could
>> call, I would be happy with that.
>>
>> Is there any sort of system for this?  I don't want to spend six weeks
>> creating one.
>
> The closest project that I am aware of is http://code.google.com/p/shedskin/
>
> --
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>

-- 
Sent from my mobile device

.!# RichardBronosky #!.