Hi Guillaume, PythonOCC has a split personality; part of the project is very pythonic, which is the layer we build upon the wrappers. The reason why the wrappers arent very pythonic is that we want the documentation of OCC to be valid for pythonOCC.
In [2]: api = StlAPI.StlAPI_Writer() In [3]: api. api.GetASCIIMode api.__delattr__ api.__reduce_ex__ api.GetRelativeMode api.__dict__ api.__repr__ api.SetASCIIMode api.__doc__ api.__setattr__ api.SetCoefficient api.__getattribute__ api.__str__ api.SetDeflection api.__hash__ api.__weakref__ api.SetRelativeMode api.__init__ api._kill_pointed api.Write api.__module__ api.this api.__class__ api.__new__ api.thisown api.__del__ api.__reduce__ In [3]: api.SetASCIIMode(False) In [4]: api.GetASCIIMode() Out[4]: 0 In [5]: Welcome aboard! -jelle On Apr 8, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Guillaume Bouchard wrote: > Hi, > > I just discovered python-occ (and occ) and life became much much > easier for me, > I work every day with big STEP/IGES files and need to do some work > on them > (convert them to triangles, ...). > > I have tried the StlAPI to convert a shape in STL file, this work > very well, > but saves the STL file in ascii mode, which is good unless you have > VERY (VERY !) > BIG (HUGE) file. To set the StlAPI to Binary mode, the C > documentation says [1] that > StlAPI_Writer.ASCIIMode must be used, like that: > > w.ASCIIMode() # Get the value > w.ASCIIMode() = false # Set the value. > > [1] > http://designfiles.org/lab/opencascade/occ6.3.0/doc/ReferenceDocumentation/DataExchange/html/classStlAPI__Writer.html#a7 > > This is impossible in python because python does not accepts lvalue as > expression. > > So, I have a C version like that, which work perfectly: > > StlAPI_Writer api = StlAPI_Writer(); > api.ASCIIMode() = false; > api.Write(shape, filename_out); > > And a python version like that: > > api = StlAPI.StlAPI_Writer() > # api.ASCIIMode() = False > api.Write(shape, filename_out) > > How to remove the comment without triggering a SyntaxError ? > > Did I miss something easy ? Is this a binding issue ? > > Thank for your help. > > -- > Guillaume > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonocc-users mailing list > Pythonocc-users@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/pythonocc-users _______________________________________________ Pythonocc-users mailing list Pythonocc-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/pythonocc-users
