Re: [tipc-discussion] tipc.py

[Hoang H. Le <hoa...@de...>]

Hi Jon,

I've done this a long time ago:
5057f8bb4de0 tipcutils: introduce python api

Basically, it works with Python 2.

Regards,
Hoang
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Maloy <jm...@re...>
> Sent: Friday, October 2, 2020 4:56 AM
> To: tip...@li...; tipc-dek <tip...@de...>; Xin Long <luc...@gm...>; Ying Xue
> <yin...@wi...>
> Subject: tipc.py
> 
> I am updating the programmer's manual, and realized that the Python API
> is missing.
> Since there are so many programmers knowing Python nowadays, but not C,
> I think it would
> be very useful to have this API in the manual, so those programmers can
> get a feeling
> for how simple it to use TIPC.
> 
> Tuong started development of an API based on the libtipc C-API, but it
> seems to me it was never finished.
> However, Python does since a long time have native TIPC support,
> allegedly both in Python 2 and Pyton 3.
> I had never seen that API until now, but after some googling I came over
> the following link, that seems to contain
> that native implemenation:
> 
> https://blitiri.com.ar/p/pytipc/
> 
> I wonder if anybody has the time to try this one, and verify, using the
> examples, that it really works.
> It would be embarrassing to add this to the manual if it turns out it
> doesn't work.
> 
> Regards
> ///jon
> 
> PS. Does anybody volunteer to be become co-maintainer of the home page
> and project page
>        at SourceForge? I think we should even consider moving it to
> GitLab or GitHub.
>        Since we have our own domain (tipc.io) that could easily be
> re-steered to a different
>        host system.