Python component model

[Robert Kern]

Edward Diener No Spam wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
>> Edward Diener No Spam wrote:
>>
>>> There's nothing wrong with Python's introspection. In fact Python's 
>>> facilities in this area and its support for metadata are stronger than 
>>> any of these other languages ! However there is no common component 
>>> model which specifies that X is a "property" or Y is an "event" of a 
>>> Python class which can be visually manipulated at design-time and 
>>> automagically set at run-time, so that any given Python RAD visual 
>>> environment will treat a Python class, specified as a component, in 
>>> exactly the same way. Also in these other languages, a component is 
>>> different from a class in that a component is recognized in a 
>>> particular way, often so that the component can interact if necessary 
>>> with its container and/or visual site.
>> You'll definitely want to take a look at Enthought's Traits (disclaimer: 
>> I work for Enthought). I'm supposed to be on vacation now, so I'm not 
>> going to give you the full rundown of Traits and Traits UI, so I'm 
>> simply going to point you to the page we have about it:
>>
>>   http://code.enthought.com/traits/
> 
> It looks as if traits is an attempt to create a "property" in the 
> component terminology which I originally specified. I will take a look 
> at it.

It also provides an event model and a declarative UI layer as well as several 
other things besides.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco