Re: newbie: loading' example' example in python

Hmm - I see this now browsing the 'example.py' file that was generated.

...and you have to invoke it as:

$ python -i example.py

and only then you have access to the functions via their original names (which 
is very convenient) but where is this documented?  the docs, which I reviewed 
several times imply that this is NOT the way to do it (and make no mention of 
the way you suggest).

The docs say
<quote>
$python
>>> import example
>>> example.fact(4)
24
>>>
</quote>

and make no mention at all of the correct way to use it.  Tho the chapter does 
note that it is under repair...

And several hours of googling for the answer did not reveal the answer either, 
tho now it might...:)

Anyway, things look considerably clearer and I am amazed at Swig's ingenuity.

thanks for your help!

Harry


Nicholas Henke wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:55:17 -0800
> Harry Mangalam <hjm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>     > OK - with the help of my betters (thanks to Diane Trout), I've been able
>     > to get 
>     > the C module to load, but the solution is not like anything the recent
>     > docs 
>     > indicate.
>     > 
>     > You have to name the generated .so '_example.so' and in Python:
>     > 
>     >  >>>import _example
>     > 
>     > No other combination of names, underscores, etc worked.  If this is in
>     > fact the 
>     > case, it might be worth correcting the docs for this.  However, it seems
>     > odd 
>     > that this convention is actually the intended one (...?)
>
> That is only if you want to import the shared lib directly. SWIG assumes that
> you will access the wrapper through the generated python code. You should see an
> example.py where you compiled the extention. This is what gets imported if you
> do an 'import example', and in example.py you will see 'import _example'.
>
>
> Nic

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Cheers, Harry
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