Re: [tipc-discussion] tipc.py

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

Hi Jon,

I will make an effort on this. Do you think we need to keep these APIs compatibility work with Python2 or completely remove out?

Regards,
Hoang
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Maloy <jm...@re...>
> Sent: Saturday, October 3, 2020 5:59 AM
> To: Hoang Huu Le <hoa...@de...>; tip...@li...; tipc-dek <tip...@de...>; Xin
> Long <luc...@gm...>; Ying Xue <yin...@wi...>
> Subject: Re: tipc.py
> 
> 
> 
> 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.