Improve (Python) scriptabilityHello Eric I am Arijit, a senior at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India and will be graduate this coming month. I am interested in applying for openoffice.org's summer intership program.
I am very much interested in working on the project titled : Improve (Python) scriptability, that aims to provide Python with direct access to OOo's certain core functionalities and thus add Python-ic support to OOo. I was exposed to wrapper functions for Python during last year's Google Summer of Code. My last year's Summer of Code project dealt with implementation of a canvas based GUI modeller for ASCEND. In this project the front-end GUI was developed in PyGTK where as the core ASCEND back-end was purely C++ ( with STL ). And intercommunication between Python and C++ was done using SWIG generated wrapper functions. I like Python very much and work mainly with it. I would like to learn more about wrapper function generation and provide Python with wrapper functions that allows it to directly access some of the OOo's core functionalities. Hence, I am very much interested in this project idea and would like to work on it. I would like to discuss this project in more details with the project mentor(s). I would be highly grateful if you could give me any recommendations/suggestions to begin with. Looking forward to hear from you Thanks and Cheers Arijit
