Hello, I am a Google Summer of Code student who preparing a SWIG's Python 3.0 support proposal. Here's detail of my proposal:
http://www.dabeaz.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GSoCPython3Proposal And abstract shown below for convenient: This project adds Python 3.0 support for SWIG. We will add a "-3" option to SWIG's current backend, which indicates SWIG to generate wrapper for Python 3. We also make SWIG generate more efficient code and more clear proxy by utilizing Python 3's new features. The considered features are as follows: * Function Annotations * Mutable Buffer Support * Abstract Base Classes I have read PEPs and Python 3's document, then did some experiment on the API. I have modified a SWIG generated wrapper code by hand so it can running with Python 3.0. However, there still some API changes I can't handle. SWIG used some undocumented C API, for example the _PyInstance_Lookup(). And some API disappeared, I can't found the alternative of them, for example PyInstance_NewRaw(). I think I will need a lot of help from Python developers if my proposal is accepted. So I post this here to make sure if I can get help when doing this project. And I really appreciate if you can give any advice about how to solve the problems I mentioned before. Thank you! Best regards, Haoyu Bai 4/12/2008 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
