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Re: What bindings in general need is:
by Phil Thompson on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @10:23

Replacing certain widgets with C++ versions would have been my suggestion. This is similar to what was done with eric (the PyQt IDE). The quickest way to add a good programmer's editor was to port Scintilla to Qt, produce Python bindings for it, and write the rest of the IDE in Python.

Another common approach of commercial users when they want to revamp an existing C++ application is to isolate the core functionality in a library (if it's not already structured as such), produce Python bindings for it, and rewrite everything else (particularly the GUI) using PyQt.

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Re: What bindings in general need is:
by Philippe Fremy on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @13:24

Yep. It is exactly what I am doing at the moment for my job. We have a little C++ library that does some of the irreplacable system code. We wrap it with boost and use python everywhere else. It is a _very_ productive language. I also love the way I can quickly write complicated tests or the way I can make arguments expclicit:

Compare:
acs = generate_acs( ACS_ALWAYS, (ACS_AUTH, KEY_1), ACS_NEVER, ACS_NEVER )
CreateFile( 300, 0x3F00, acs )

with:
acs = generate_acs( read=ACS_ALWAYS, write=(ACS_AUTH, KEY_1),delete=ACS_NEVER )
CreateFile( size=300, id=0x3F00, access=acs )

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