Subvertpy might be a useful alternative as well. Jelmer wrote them for the same reason... the swig ones just weren't very Pythonic: <https://launchpad.net/subvertpy>
-John On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Hyrum K Wright <hy...@hyrumwright.org> wrote: > I'm writing a script in which I simply want to retrieve a set of > arbitrary log message and then do stuff with them. Using the Python > bindings seemed like the logical choice (whether is was or not is now > debatable, but that isn't the point of this mail). Turns out that > using the Python bindings is a *painful* experience, for at least the > following reasons (and they may extend to the other swig-generated > bindings, I don't know): > > * This is little to no documentation. What docs that do exist relate > to the C APIs, and have little bearing on Python types and their > conversions. > * Because of the above, development with the bindings tends to be by > trial-and-error. > * The bindings are verbose (client.svn_client_get_log5), and do > little to help the user. > * They are still very C-like, not using common idioms from the target > language. > > I don't know how to solve these problems today or tomorrow, and they > may already be old news to many people here. But to a new user of the > bindings, it sure was a frustrating experience (and I already know the > Subversion C infrastructure!) I finally gave up and just used the > commandline, piping the results into my processing script. I feel > sorry for folks trying to use the bindings from scratch. > > -Hyrum (who feels better now) >
