Johann Rohwer wrote: > Is the Python interface to Gnumeric workbooks (as accessed by "import > Gnumeric") available as a stand alone or do I have to access it through the > Gnumeric Python console?
I've had a quick email exchange with Jody and am going to start some work hopefully leading to a Python API for the complete Gnumeric object model. My rough idea of a plan goes something like: - Look at other language bindings, in particular JavaGnome and PyGTK,and existing Gnumeric/python code for guidance and gotchas - Manual proof of concept bindings to enough of the API to make a window pop up and maybe do one or two things in the application. I hope this will expose any really tricky issues I hadn't foreseen. - Code generated Python bindings for all datatypes and functions. A very big item. Will probably involve tracing header and data type dependencies manually or otherwise. Will probably involve refactoring of code not suited to library usage or h2def. - Wrapper of python bindings exposing a Pythonic object API for users. The design of the end-user python API and any changes to Gnumeric obviously will require discussion with the whole team, but I think that initially I can dig into the details of generating code for 1-to-1 C-to-Python bindings independently. I'm hoping it will help reduce the work in keeping a Python API up to date with Gnumeric code changes. I have a background in python and low level C on Windows and GNU/Linux as well as Excel/VBA automation. However I can't work on this more than part time, so I hope to spew forth notes on what I'm doing so that other people can keep going with this if I drop the ball. Nick _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
