pyvm -- faster python

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu May 12 10:10:16 EDT 2005


    >> - hacking SWIG.  Shouldn't be too hard and will instantly give
    >> us access to wx, qt, etc.

    Mike> You can't assume that because some package is a C/C++ library
    Mike> wrapped for Python that it uses SWIG. pyqt, for example, doesn't
    Mike> use SWIG at all. It uses SIP, which is considerably more
    Mike> complicated than SWIG.

PyGTK uses its own lisp-y thing as the wrapper IDL. Actually, it's specific
to GTK and is AFAIK is used to wrap GTK by languages besides Python.

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