Marco Pasetti wrote:

> > Maybe this is what you have in mind, but I think that the wx-config is 
> > only
> > needed for compiling vdigit, not for using it.
> 
> Good! sorry, confused: I always thought that Python was an interpreted 
> language.

It is. But it also supports extension through binary modules
(libraries) written in e.g. C or C++.

> I don't know anything about the new vdigit: does it have some C or 
> C++ code parts to be compiled in Python?

The vdigit module has a mixture of C++ and Python code. The C++ code
is compiled into a binary module (.so, .dll); you need to configure
with --with-wxwidgets, which needs wx-config to get the compilation
and linking switches for the C++ code.

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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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