[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: Python/Contact Data Store APIs..

[From: Luciano M. Wolf]

On 1/30/07, Ross Burton <ross at burtonini.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:48 -0900, John P. Mitchell wrote:
> >     I want to write an address book that intergrates with the built in
> > contacts data store. Which libraries are required for accessing that data
> > store and are there bindings for them in the Python 2.5 release?
> >      Has anyone tried using swig[1] to build a wrapper for binding Maemo C
> > libraries to Python?
>
> To access the address book data you libebook, there is a tutorial on
> maemo.org:
>
> http://maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_using_abook_bora.html
>
> However there are no Python wrappers.  The API is fairly standard
> GObject style so you should have some success in using the existing
> pygtk framework to wrap it.  The parsing tools are quite pedantic so
> I'll happily modify any headers in the EDS svn repository to make it
> build, as I'd love to see Python wrappers myself.
>
> You may find http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-wrap/
> useful, it's a tutorial I wrote some time ago (but still mostly
> relevant, not a lot has changed) that documents the basics in wrapping
> GObjects for Python.
>
> Ross
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Hi,

You could take a look in PythonHildon[1] too. We use codegen, provided
by pygtk, to produce bindings. First of all run h2def to produce the
"def" files that will be used by gen-enum-c and gen-enum-h. Codegen
will work over code generated by these utilities. The utilities are
called by setup.py.
Most part of time swig application is used to produce C++ wrappers and
here we use C. This is the reason to adopt codegen.

Regards,
Luciano
-INdT-

[1]
https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/python-hildon/