[GRASS5] Re: Python binding for Grass library

[Sajith VK]

Hello all,
   I managed to make python bindings for few functions from grass api.
(Which were needed for my application). I used "swig" program for this.
The same was used on the existing (old) module too...
Now I can implement my program in python using grass api.

Using swing, writing python binding for the whole Grass API is not
too difficult, but involves some work. I am trying for this. For this,
I need advice on following

1. Which all functions need to be included in the bindings?
    Many functions like G_alloc()... may not be needed in python.

2. Should we make a single binding for the whole grass api
    or should it be broken to parts (Based on grass library)

One more fact: Swing directly supports all the scripting languages
like perl,php etc. Hence if we make binding for python, creating binding
for other languages will be very easy

Bye Bye

On 7/20/05, Sajith VK <sajithvk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>  Its a much discussed issue, I check almost all prvious discussions on it.
> Python bindings was developed
> and is available at ftp://intevation.de/users/bernhard/libgrass5/
> I didnt used it, and has no Idea about its working. But now it is four
> years old.
> 
> But python binding for libgrass (and for grass modules, if possible)
> is really helpful, and I think will result in more contribution to grass
> (Developing a model in python is very very easy, for researchers).
> 
> So I wish to know is there any other python binding exists for libgrass,
> or is someone working on it.
> 
> Currently I dont have any idea about how to create python bindings..
> Can someone suggest on this? I can spend some time for this...
> 
> Bye
> 
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