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From: Mitchell N Charity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:07:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] February tech meeting? - pyinline
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

   I *think* that Neil Watkis or Ken Simpson have taken a first stab
   at inline.py, which is a Python equivalent to Inline.  It probably
   just does C code at the moment, [...]

Well, there's pyinline <http://ttul.org/~ksimpson/PyInline/>,
by Ken Simpson.  It's just C.  Last release in August.
Minimal documentation.

It seems to work (at least inside of Inline::Python :), though I
haven't been pressing it very hard.

I'm playing run-time code generation games with Inline::C and Perl
objects with auxiliary C API's, and pyinline was sufficient to do a
first cut at making them usable from python.
 
Neil Watkis has, on the Inline::Python todo list, the concept of
allowing Python to be the "outer" program.  One might drop him a line,
expressing interest / asking how it's going.

   [...] but theoretically you could shim
   in Perl and a couple of modules through that mechanism with
   significantly less effort (and significantly less osmosis) than pyperl.

:)
There was a recent postin on the inline mailinglist, an "inline
poetry" program which called Java/Tcl/Python/C using Inline::mumble,
to generate "Perl calling Mumble" strings, each language contributing
its own name.  A natural extension might be a "drunken walker", to
generating strings like "From Perl to Python to C to Perl to C to
Python to C to TCL".  It's still on my todo list, but sinking fast...

Cheers,
Mitchell Charity
(Never noticed the Boston.pm before.  Oh well.)


   * From: Adam Turoff
   * Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] February tech meeting?
   * Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 11:27:25 -0800

   On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 02:41:17PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
   > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   > > Zope wound up being something content
   > > department found appropriate for their needs, and the software
   > > development found to be a good toolkit to work with. 
   > > We'll just have to whip up a Python-equivalent of Inline::Python for
   > you. :)

   I *think* that Neil Watkis or Ken Simpson have taken a first stab
   at inline.py, which is a Python equivalent to Inline.  It probably
   just does C code at the moment, but theoretically you could shim
   in Perl and a couple of modules through that mechanism with
   significantly less effort (and significantly less osmosis) than pyperl.

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