Re: [tipc-discussion] tipc.py

[Jon M. <jm...@re...>]

On 10/1/20 11:04 PM, Hoang Huu Le wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> I've done this a long time ago:
> 5057f8bb4de0 tipcutils: introduce python api
>
> Basically, it works with Python 2.
Do you think it you would have time to do this for Python 3?
Python 2 is practically dead now, as we all know.

Regards
///jon
>
> 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.