Automated code generation

Eugene Pervago pervago at prodigy.net.mx
Fri Sep 5 17:05:25 EDT 2003


achrist at easystreet.com wrote in message news:<3F58D910.197C3C85 at easystreet.com>...
> Cameron Laird wrote:
> > Yes, it's largely useless in a language as dynamic as Python.
> 
> Isn't SWIG a code generator?

Most of what it generates is C++, Python is special in that there is
some optional wrapper code generated to use Python 2.2's features like
properties. No code, for example, is generated for Ruby (or Perl
AFAIK).

Eugene Pervago
Kahakai (Python scripted window manager) http://kahakai.sf.net/




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