From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Thomas Heller" <thomas.heller@ion-tof.com>
To: "Kirby, Dave" <dkirby@orchestream.com>, <sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com>, "Syd Polk" <spolk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Some Python (and other) questions
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 12:22:00 -0000
Message-id: <004d01c02c9d$90ad0680$4500a8c0@thomas>
References: <4.2.0.58.20001002104207.00d796e0@pop.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00004.html

> >I have recently upgraded to 4.5.2 for its Python support, and have some
> >questions.
> >
> >Firstly, the python support seems to be only partial - nothing shows up
in
> >the class view and the Xref and Include tabs are greyed out.  However the
> >information for the classes, methods etc are in the database since they
can
> >be seen in the Retriever view, so what gives?  Is this a bug in the
python
> >parser?
>
> You need to ask the original author.
Ok, so here we go:

The python parser is modeled after pyclrbr.py, with the improvement
that it also finds global variables (apart from classes, methods
and functions).
No xref info at all (simply because I have no idea how to do this).
No import statements are parsed, so no include info is generated.

>
> >Secondly, has anyone tried creating python wrappers for the SN  APIs?
This
> >would make it easy to write scripts for analysing the information in the
DB
> >(as suggested by a previous poster) and for creating parsers written in
> >python.  I may have a go myself when I have time, but dont dont want to
> >duplicate the work if someone else has already done it.  It should be
easy
> >using SWIG, and this would also enable the APIs to be called from TCL,
Perl,
> >Guile etc.

Thoma