On Tuesday 14 Dec 2004 17:41, Jim Bublitz wrote: > On Tuesday 14 December 2004 06:39, Richard Taylor wrote: > > Are there any python wrappers for the KPIM libaries? I would like to be > > able to access the Address Book and KMail libraries from a pyKDE > > application. > > > > My apologies if the answer to this should be staring me in the face. I > > have been looking around but I can't find any reference to using Python > > to call these libraries. > > At one time someone was going to contribute KABC bindings, but those have > never been completed as far as I know. I haven't looked at them in a while > - there was some handwritten code required, but that may now be minimal > with recent sip changes. >
I will have to take a look at sip. I have done some bindings using swig in the past. > I haven't looked at all at KMail - do you know which KDE source package > that lib is bundled with (would save me some digging)? If there are KPIM > libs that handle the address book stuff at a higher level than KABC (which > is part of kdelibs), it would help to know that too. > I don't know the answer to this a the moment. I was hoping that I could just use a Python binding rather than having to get in to the detail of the KPIM libs :-) > It probably isn't a lot of work to generate the bindings, although I'm not > doing very well keeping up with PyKDE as is. The other consideration is > whether PyKDE should get larger or additional bindings should be a separate > project/package. I'll have to give it some thought. > It would be nice to see the sip descriptions being bundled with the KDE applications themselves but I guess that is asking too much. Richard -- You can normally find me on Jabber as [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
