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Python COM for Linux?

Warren Postma embed at NOSPAM.geocities.com
Tue Jun 27 09:47:16 EDT 2000 
I find callbacks from C to python to be no problem. I use a simple
publish/subscribe event model implemented as a C extension that has a
dictionary with the event names as the keys (strings), and the callbacks as
a list of Python functions.  The C code is both portable and elegant, IMHO.

Adding COM just to get callbacks would be ugly for two reasons:

1. You already have TWO sets of  primitive types (C builtin variable types,
and Python's native types), why mix in a third?

2. COM on Linux is a fudge, and not a very stable one at that. There is a
COM implementation for Linux but it's not open source, so if you have a
problem, you can't fix it, you're stuck.


Warren

<scoota at my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8ja7gv$687$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing an automation interface for a large system embedding Python
> as the script language.  To keep the scripts as easy to write as
> possible (for the end-user) I'm providing a set of extension objects
> written in C++.  What I would ideally like is for these objects to fire
> events which are then handled in the Python script.  So far I can see
> no platform independent way of doing this except using explicit
> callbacks (which is messier than I would like).
>
> Has anyone any experience in this area?
>
> Scoota
>
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