[Nexus-developers] Python

[Peterson, Peter F.]

Actually there is three in cvs [bindings/swig, contrib/bindings/nxpylib,
contrib/bindings/nxpython] who have various authors. In the end what you
want is something cheap and simple (swig) with a abstraction layer into
the language you are using. My opinion is that the way forward is a bit
of a hybrid of the methods in cvs. If I understand correctly Harmut's
code (contrib/bindings/nxpylib) is the closest to what I am thinking.
The "proper" way forward probably is to move this to the wiki attached
to the "object oriented interface" page (I forget the correct name).

P^2

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Maliszewskyj [mailto:nickm at nist.gov] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:29 AM
To: Peterson, Peter F.
Cc: nexus-developers at anl.gov
Subject: Re: [Nexus-developers] Python

I've read Freddie and Hartmut's posts. The fact that there is
no "preferred" way for dealing with NeXus from python is one of
the API issues we raised and had not resolved. There are at least
four Python wrappers floating around. The swig binding has some
slight preference because it's part of the nexus distribution
tarball. I'll probably end up using that one or Tim Kelley's
pynexus.

Nick

Peterson, Peter F. wrote:

>Can somebody tell me what is the preferred way for dealing with NeXus
>from python. The code in nexus/bindings/swig does not have an entry
>point (something to "import"). However, the stuff in
>nexus/contrib/nxpython appears to work out of the box.
>
>What are people using?
>
>P^2
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