Re: [Swig-user] Python : rename keywords arguments

[Nitro <ni...@dr...>]

Am 02.09.2006, 02:36 Uhr, schrieb John Lenz <le...@cs...>:

> On 09/01/06 18:29, Nitro wrote:
>> A similar way that I use to rename classes and functions is to parse
>> everything with swig -xml and then run an xml parser on this to extra=
ct
>> the necessary symbols. You could use this to generate the proper  =

>> #defines
>> into another file.
>> My script is basically a customized version of this one here (credits=
 to
>> Robin Dunn from wxPython):
>> http://cvs.wxwidgets.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/wxWidgets/wxPython/co=
nfig.py?rev=3D1.71.2.19&content-type=3Dtext/plain
>> . Just search for "processXML" (at the very bottom) in there to get t=
he
>> function which extracts the proper xml data.
>>
>> -Matthias
>
>
> Since a bunch of people ask about this feature, it might be nice to ad=
d
> that script in as an example in the Example directory.  Then people ca=
n
> copy it from SWIG and customize it themselves.
>
> If anyone wants to make a simple example, of using a script to rename
> variables, I will gladly add it to CVS.
>
> John

A shortcut to using this script is to use %rename with the regular  =

expression things. I've never tried that way though. In bigger projects =
 =

the xml building + parsing step takes up a considerable amount of time, =
so  =

the %rename way might be preferred in that case for simple operations.
Afaik GCC also provides some xml mode, so for people using only GCC they=
  =

might investigate this method, too.
At the moment I don't have enough time at hands to provide a complete  =

example, I also don't know how to write makefiles. I could provide a  =

python xml parser script though which is customized for the example alon=
g  =

with an example interface file.