Hi Giuseppe,

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Giuseppe Penone <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I read that there's no need of reference because gtk3 reference is enough,
> well I'm a gtk3 and gtkmm3 developer over a pygtk developer (my most used
> app is www.giuspen.com/cherrytree) but still I miss pygtk reference when
> doing something in PyGobject.
>

I'm curious where you read this as I think the idea should be squashed. Or
perhaps the statement is being misinterpreted? The current gtk3 C
docs/annotations should be "enough", but using them to generate python
specific docs still needs to happen (more below).

I read somewhere that gtkmm generates the reference automatically from gtk,
> why can't pygobject do the same?
>

It can and should. I would even take it further and say we should be
pulling translated (as in programming language translated) versions of the
docs into the python bindings as __doc__ attributes (perhaps lazily to keep
good import performance). Python override docs would be overlayed on top of
these. With this idea, documentation would be available through all the
standard mechanisms python programmers are used to (interactively,
calltips, doc generators, etc..). There has been some advancement on this
front recently but much more work is needed.

Gtk/GObject function signatures are now available in python:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681967

Ticket regarding dynamic doc generation:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625494

-Simon
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