I for one would love to see a Python scripting interface for Sketchup. I carried out a fairly major Sketchup scripting exercise recently [1], and while it was fun, I would have enjoyed it more if I'd been able to use Python.
However, I think it's going to be a fairly tall order to persuade the Sketchup developers to do this, since as has been pointed out, it would cost them considerable time and effort, and they would need to perceive a correspondingly large benefit. I suspect it would take either (a) a *lot* of people asking for it, or (b) someone who is already enthusiastic about Python joining the development team. I wouldn't count on Guido being able to help much, since he probably has little to no contact with or influence over the people responsible for setting the direction of Sketchup development. Google is a big company, and AtLast is a subsidiary, not a part of Google itself. However, it might be possible for us to help ourselves if we could embed a Python interpreter into a Ruby extension module, and create our own Python wrappers around the Ruby API. I'd be happy to discuss this idea if you'd like to take it further. [1] http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/marathup/index.html -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
