Re: [Cython] History of SWIG and applicability to Cython

2011-08-30 Thread Neal Becker
gcc now has python bindings. Maybe that would allow the desired introspection? That would be great, because it seems like python binding for gcc is going to be supported. ___ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/

Re: [Cython] History of SWIG and applicability to Cython

2011-08-29 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Hi, > > here's an interesting history wrap-up of SWIG, by its original author. Very interesting thread. > One thing that stroke me when I read this (or rather when I was half-way > through) was that it might be possible to use SWIG as a glu

Re: [Cython] History of SWIG and applicability to Cython

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Colbert
I've been working on CWrap in my spare time. https://github.com/enthought/cwrap The goal is to be SWIG for Cython. It currently outputs pxd files for the headers of a C library. It's not mature, but it works. (It can output pxd files for the whole of Intel's IPP and MKL libraries). I hope to eve

Re: [Cython] History of SWIG and applicability to Cython

2011-08-29 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:31 PM, mark florisson wrote: > On 29 August 2011 19:25, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> Stefan Behnel, 29.08.2011 16:33: >>> >>> here's an interesting history wrap-up of SWIG, by its original author. >>> [...] >> >> And an interesting reply: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.

Re: [Cython] History of SWIG and applicability to Cython

2011-08-29 Thread mark florisson
On 29 August 2011 19:25, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Stefan Behnel, 29.08.2011 16:33: >> >> here's an interesting history wrap-up of SWIG, by its original author. >> [...] > > And an interesting reply: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/126425/focus=126440 > > I didn't know clang even

Re: [Cython] History of SWIG and applicability to Cython

2011-08-29 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel, 29.08.2011 16:33: here's an interesting history wrap-up of SWIG, by its original author. [...] And an interesting reply: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/126425/focus=126440 I didn't know clang even had Python bindings for its parser. Stefan

[Cython] History of SWIG and applicability to Cython

2011-08-29 Thread Stefan Behnel
Hi, here's an interesting history wrap-up of SWIG, by its original author. One thing that stroke me when I read this (or rather when I was half-way through) was that it might be possible to use SWIG as a glue code generator for .pxd files and trivial wrapper code. Not sure how hard that would