Re: [Orbit-python-list] Where are the constants?

[Gustavo J. A. M. C. <gj...@in...>]

A Qui, 2004-01-22 =E0s 11:08, Will Denissen escreveu:
> Does this mean that pyOrbit can not marshal fixed length arrays?
> Is there a workaround?

  I guess it can, though I never tried it before.  I don't see how it
relates to the other problem, though.  The only problem I'm aware of is
that pyorbit is not importing the symbols for the consts.  I am not
aware of any types not working in pyorbit.

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> Will
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> "Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" wrote:
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> >   To answer your questions, pyorbit is the only maintained project,
> > right now.  However, pyorbit's maintainer, James Henstridge, is a bit
> > busy, lately.  If you have a problem, you better come up with a patch=
 to
> > solve it, otherwise it's unlikely he will find time to solve it.
> >   Regarding the constants, that is a known problem with pyorbit.  You=
're
> > not doing anything wrong.  But I can offer you no more help.  Perhaps
> > you should file a bug report in bugzilla.gnome.org.  In the mean time=
,
> > you can just copy-paste the consts to your python source, as a
> > workaround.
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> >   Good luck..
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> > A Qui, 2004-01-22 =E0s 09:39, Will Denissen escreveu:
> > > Dear orbit-python experts,
> > >
> > > I'm new to python and new to orbit-python and heve the following si=
mple
> > > problem.
> > > Given the simple.idl:
> > >
> > > --- simple.idl -------
> > >
> > > module M {
> > >   interface my_I {
> > >     const long my_const =3D 3;
> > >
> > >     struct my_struct {
> > >       long my_member[my_const];
> > >     };
> > >
> > >     long my_func
> > >     (
> > >        out my_struct my_out
> > >     );
> > >   };
> > > };
> > >
> > > --- end of simple.idl -------
> > >
> > > Given the following session:
> > >
> > > wsasd649:~ % python
> > > Python 2.2.1 (#1, Sep 12 2002, 16:24:44)
> > > [GCC 3.1.1] on sunos5
> > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more informati=
on.
> > > >>> import sys,ORBit
> > > >>> ORBit.load_file("simple.idl")
> > > >>> dir()
> > > ['ORBit', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'sys']
> > > >>> import M
> > > >>> dir()
> > > ['M', 'ORBit', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'sys']
> > > >>> dir(M)
> > > ['__doc__', '__name__', 'my_I']
> > > >>> dir(M.my_I)
> > > ['__class__', '__cmp__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__getattribute_=
_',
> > > '__getstate__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__module__', '__new__',
> > > '__reduce__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__slots__', '__str__',
> > > '__typecode__', '_duplicate', '_hash', '_is_a', '_is_equivalent',
> > > '_is_nil', '_narrow', '_non_existent', 'my_func', 'my_struct']
> > > >>>
> > >
> > > I can find import module M and its content M.my_I, M.my_I.my_struct=
, and
> > > M.my_I.my_func.
> > >
> > > I havegot the following questions:
> > > - WHERE has my_const gone? How can i access it?
> > > - Do I need another import?
> > > - Could there be placed an example on the internet that shows
> > >   a simple idl and how to access its content within python.
> > > - I know there are two freeware ORBit python bindings: pyORBit and
> > > ORBit-python
> > >   which one is the most mature, and why should I use it?
> > >
> > > PS:  I am using pyORBit for the ORBit python binding
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Will Denissen.
> > --
> > Gustavo Jo=E3o Alves Marques Carneiro
> > <gj...@in...> <gu...@us...>
> > The universe is always one step beyond logic.
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Gustavo Jo=E3o Alves Marques Carneiro
<gj...@in...> <gu...@us...>
The universe is always one step beyond logic.