[Xcb] first cut of python bindings for libxcb

Barton C Massey bart at cs.pdx.edu
Tue Apr 1 15:20:24 PDT 2008


In message <47F28169.3050801 at tycho.nsa.gov> you wrote:
> Barton C Massey wrote:
> > My Python-fu is weak.  What exactly does this code do? :-)
> 
> It's a Python binding that is generated from the C header files.  Which 
> is admittedly not the best solution but it can be tossed out once we 
> have a better one that uses the XML description directly.

That's what I thought, but I thought I'd better check.
Might as well have it for now, as you say.  I can create a
repo for it, or I think you can; it's probably a matter of
contacting sitewranglers at freedesktop.org .

> > We need to get the Python XML parsing code promoted ASAP.
> > Does someone want to volunteer to tackle Thomas and/or
> > whoever to get what folks already have, then glue something
> > together in a suitable form?
> 
> I just grabbed what is currently available at
> git://people.freedesktop.org/~tom/libxcb and I'm going to
> start hacking on it.

You're a hero.  As always, thanks hugely.

	Bart



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