All right; Thanks a lot! So in my project I should also do the same first
generate a low level interface using SWIG and than make that interface a
perfect wrapper with the help of target language.

Again Thank You!!


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Tamás Nepusz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yup, Gábor is correct, the Python interface is handcrafted. Theoretically,
> the script we use to generate the R interface could also be used to
> generate the Python interface but I have never found enough spare time to
> replace my existing code with the one generated by the generator so it
> looks like it's here to stay.
>
> For what it's worth, the interfaces that SWIG and alike generate from C
> code are usually kind of brittle, so my experience is that it is usually
> easier to generate a "low-level" interface with SWIG and then wrap it with
> a high level interface that fits more into the host language. To some
> extent, this is also what I do with the Python interface: the handcrafted C
> code compiles into a hidden module named igraph._igraph, and the "main"
> igraph module imports almost all the stuff from igraph._igraph and then
> wraps some functions that are too cumbersome to use with their original
> (C-like) interface.
>
> --
> T.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> From: Gábor Csárdi [email protected]
> Reply: Help for igraph users [email protected]
> Date: 17 March 2014 at 01:28:11
> To: Help for igraph users [email protected]
> Subject:  Re: [igraph] Original language of igraph and its porting to
> other languages
>
> > Hi, we don't use SWIG. Much of the R interface is generated by a Python
> > script we wrote. The Python interface is totally hand-written, AFAIK.
> >
> > See the sources at https://github.com/igraph/igraph, the develop tree is
> > most recent.
> >
> > Best,
> > Gabor
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Shaifali Agrawal <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello igraph developers
> > >
> > > Oriignal language in which igraph is written are C/C++(right?) as
> > > mentioned on wiki page . I wanted to know how
> > > you people manage to port C/C++ code to other languages like Python,
> Ruby,
> > > R. Have you used SWIG which work for many other
> > > languages or diffrint lib/tool for different languages like for Python
> we
> > > have Boost.Python, PypiRobin ,
> > > tradtional C++ embedding
> http://docs.python.org/2/extending/extending.html,
> > > etc.I want to know process of binding for each language and
> specifically
> > > for Python. I need this for one of my project in which want to do same.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Thanks
> > >
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