[mythtv] Re: python bindings

James Casbon james.casbon at a4internet.com
Thu Dec 9 17:10:51 UTC 2004


>Has anyone thought of adding python bindings to make it easier for 
>people to add plugins? Easier for me anyhow =) 
> 
>If no one is tackling this, I may give it a go. I'm thinking some 
>combination of the Qt python bindings plus a custom C++ layer to tie 
>myth into python, i.e. expose the myth classes as python classes. 
> 
>Anyone have any suggestions? 

Just a thought, but couldn't you use swig (http://www.swig.org/).  This way, 
you could define the interace to libmyth once, and then automatically 
generate bindings to perl/python/ruby/whatever.

Anyone see a problem with this?

James


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