Re: [Pyallegro] Diet Python uses alpy

[Grzegorz A. H. <gr...@ti...>]

On 2006-07-27, Andrew Fine <ete...@ho...> wrote:
> I'm making a cutdown version of Python that is very strongly
> Allegro focused.

Your project looks very interesting. Shame I don't see how to use
it under Linux, and I don't have any Windows boxes. There's no web
page I can see though. Would you like to join the pyallegro.sf.net
site? Or at least get a link to the SourceForge downloads from it.

> I'm using your _alpymodule.c, but I've reworked the alpy.py script
> into Allegro.py to present a hopefully more elegant interface.
> Would you be interested in it?

I can see how using inheritance much typing could be avoided,
but I don't like this style myself very much because you end up
with a sort of really big class in your main program, and it gets
confusing if you want to otherwise use your own stuff in the class.

I imagine it could also be problematic for software divided in
modules. Would they instance also themselves as children of the
Allegro class? What happens with global resources like screen? Do
they get shared correctly?

With regards to the module online help, is it of any use to you? Is
it true that windows IDEs show the help when you hover over some
function? I only use it from the interactive shell (ipython) and
works quite well, but hopefully other people find it useful too!