[Quickfix-developers] Status of Python bindings

[Christopher K. <cc...@cc...>]

I've been experimenting with the subversion revision of the quickfix
Python bindings, and have noticed several improvements:

* Socket initiators and acceptors now return from the start() method
* Proper tracebacks printed from application call back methods
fromAdmin() and toAdmin()
* Exposure of session specific DataDictionary through SessionSettings::get()

This is fantastic, when will the next release be?

I've also noticed problems constructing objects with arguments, for example:

In [1]: import quickfix as fix
In [2]: fix.ExecTransType(fix.ExecTransType_NEW)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
<type 'exceptions.NotImplementedError'>   Traceback (most recent call last)

/export/home/chris/src/quickfix/examples/tradeclient/<ipython console>
in <module>()

/export/home/chris/lib/python2.5/site-packages/quickfix.py in
__init__(self, *args)
    945     __repr__ = _swig_repr
    946     def __init__(self, *args):
--> 947         this = _quickfix.new_ExecTransType(*args)
    948         try: self.this.append(this)
    949         except: self.this = this

<type 'exceptions.NotImplementedError'>: Wrong number of arguments for
overloaded function 'new_ExecTransType'.
  Possible C/C++ prototypes are:
    FIX::ExecTransType()
    FIX::ExecTransType(FIX_CHAR const &)

Calling fix.ExecTransType() and then setValue() works--is this a bug
or a feature?

chris@chimp:~/src/quickfix/src$ svn info quickfix.i
Path: quickfix.i
Name: quickfix.i
URL: https://quickfix.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/quickfix/trunk/quickfix/src/quickfix.i
Repository Root: https://quickfix.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/quickfix
Repository UUID: 533fcf9a-9214-0410-92c4-e4e556a5f8fb
Revision: 1944
Node Kind: file
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: orenmnero
Last Changed Rev: 1851
Last Changed Date: 2006-11-07 02:16:43 -0800 (Tue, 07 Nov 2006)
Text Last Updated: 2008-01-30 14:33:36 -0800 (Wed, 30 Jan 2008)
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