Thanks Hubert - I will look into it.
On 8/12/05, Hubert Holin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Xposted and followups to pythonmac list which is perhaps more > appropriate] > > Somewhere in the E.U., le 12/08/2005 > > Bonjour > > > On 12 août 2005, at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:49:08 -0400 > > From: Scott Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [C++-sig] Is there a good Python C/C++ IDE? > > To: Development of Python/C++ integration <c++-sig@python.org> > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > Being new to Python, I was wondering if anyone knows of a good IDE > > that would let me develop Python and add extensions in C/C++, with the > > capability of debugging those extensions. > > > > This will be on a Mac. > > > > It looks like the standard download comes with PyObjC, however I want > > to extend Python to handle my C/C++ extensions not the other way > > around + I don't want to have to learn any ObjectiveC / ObjC syntax. > > > > Thanks, > > Well, if you do not want to create GUIs, but do want to use > one, it is possible to use XCode (2.1, though the last few previous > versions would presumably also work). > > More precisely, you can launch the command-line Python from > within XCode with a chosen script as argument (and any other > arguments you may care about), and of course you can do the C++ > programming within that environment. I have not actually tried to > have a custom Python extension used in such a setting, but it is in > my current work plan. You can even use the free (and excellent) > TextWrangler as the code editor (for C++ and Python). The debugging > of the extension can then be done using XCode's front-end to GDB. For > debugging of Python scripts proper, however, the (free) PythonIDE is > preferable, though (which leads to: development of scripts within > PythonIDE, extension coding and integration in XCode). You are, as > well, not restricted to using the Apple-supplied version of Python. > > As an example, I installed Bob Ippolito's "Official > Unofficial" Python 2.4.1. I then created an XCode project (***empty > project***) "Python via XCode", added a target "Invoked Snake" (of > type aggregate), and to it added a custom executable "Python 2.4.1 > (Official Unofficial)", setting its properties as "Executable path: / > Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin/python" and with > an argument ""/Users/hubertholin/Documents/Scratch/Python via Xcode/ > test.py"" (adding quotes around path arguments is safer... note the > whitespaces). Clicking on the "Build and Go" icon then invoked python > with my test script as argument. > > The creation of extensions should be straightforward from > the Boost.Python documentation (so far, I have only tried embedding, > not extension, which is on my to-do list). I am still trying to > refine the process to something I like, though. > > As far as Objective-C and Objective-C++ are concerned, I > only see them as something of an inconvenience, much as in the same > way that Apple's system documentation had long been geared towards > Pascal rather than C. PyObjC goes a long way to ease our suffering, > though there are some rough spots still (and the Python Carbon > bindings need a full overhaul). It should be said that Interface > Builder is superb, though, and in the absence of a NIB to whatever- > portable-package Python will understand (like there appears to be for > PERL), if one wants GUIs, then building them in IB, using PyObjC as > the glue (using documentation written for ObjC) and extending with C+ > + is a possible road. At least that's the road I am taking, and if > anybody's interested I'll report back if it actually leads > somewhere :-) . > > Bon courage > > Hubert Holin > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
