[GRASS-user] What's the point with Grass/Python SWIG interface?

[G. Allegri]

The limitations are due to the use of Grass shell commands. I would
like to have access to the C API. An use case (that is what I would
like to try) could be the coupling of NumPy with Grass.

Giovanni

2007/8/28, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>:
> G. Allegri wrote:
> > As you said, without the SWIG API, the most I can do is making system calls
> > ("os.popen") to run Grass bash commands, with an unacceptable slowness and
> > the obvious limitations it puts.
>
> Sure it's more overhead, and a pain to pass data back and forth, but does
> running as system calls from Python really make it run any slower or
> impose any hard limitations?
>
>
> curious; I know little about Python,
>
> Hamish
>