Generating C++ code

[Etienne Robillard]

On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:55:48 +0100
Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/09/2012 05:00 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm trying to generate C++ code from an XML file. I'd like to use a template engine, which imo produce something readable and maintainable.
> > My google search about this subject has been quite unsuccessful, I've been redirected to template engine specific to html mostly.
> >
> > Does anybody knows a python template engine for generating C++ code ?
> >
> > Here's my flow:
> >
> > XML file -> nice python app -> C++ code
> >
> >  From what I know I could use Cheetah, a generic template engine. I never used it though, I'm not sure this is what I need.
> > I'm familiar with jinja2 but I'm not sure I could use it to generate C++ code, did anybody try ? (maybe that's a silly question)
> >
> > Any advice would be appreciated.
> >
> > JM
> 
> I think you can use anything to generate C++ code, but is it a good idea?
> Are you going to produce this code only one time and then maintain it 
> manually?
> 
> And are you sure that the design that you would get from the XML file 
> actually makes sense when
> translated in C++?
> -- 
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

You can build nice python app with Cython/Pyrex too if you got sufficient knowledge in C/C++ programming
to extend the app in C. :-)

Otherwise that seem like a little counter-productive to produce a python template only for generating C stubs when python
is good for many things without requiring advanced C++ skills like memory management, etc.
 
HTH,
E
-- 
Etienne Robillard
Green Tea Hackers Club
Fine Software Carpentry For The Rest Of Us!
http://gthc.org/
erob at gthcfoundation.org