Category Archives: Python

Rag And Bone

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

Usually, when writing bindings for a C library in a high level language, there’s a sweet spot where you have to leave the relative safety of an API similar to the library you are wrapping and the idiomatic correctness dictated … Continue reading →

Posted in Hacking, Python | 6 Comments

John Saw That Number

Posted on December 19, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Thanks to Ross and his mad python-fu skillz, now we have a working Python binding for gtkunique – for the brave souls which may want to use it. The repositories locations have been changed, after the servers update at OpenedHand, … Continue reading →

Posted in announce, developer, GNOME, Hacking, ohand, Python | 2 Comments

Twist The Knife

Posted on November 18, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Dear LazyWeb: I’m trying to clean up the python bindings for the next release of a GObject-based library, so I’m using pygtk and its codegen magic; unfortunately, being codegen.py an incredibly bad program, I can’t see why or how it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in clutter, open-source, Python, rants | 1 Comment

How Good It Can Be

Posted on June 9, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Corey, why on earth should we switch from an entire set of system configuration tools written in Perl to another one written in Python? Just for the sake of Python? Just because there are more Python zealots^Whackers on GNOME than … Continue reading →

Posted in developer, Linux, Perl, Python, rants | 16 Comments