[pygtk] PyORBit documentation

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:21:37PM -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 11:51:29PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> I hope I'm not misinformed but this is the list where PyORBit is
>> discussed, isn't it?
>
>Yes, but it's not discussed a lot. It seems that not many people are
>using PyORBit -- I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem to get a lot of
>attention. Maybe it works so well nobody's complaining <wink>.

Yes, either might be the answer. I just found it really strange that
ORBit2 has some basic documentation for C but not for Python. The Python
binding really lets you get straight to the interesting part and a lot
of the details are nicely hidden away. It's a shame if people who look
at ORBit2 only they see is (documentation of) the C binding, I bet
that'll scare some people off.

>> I made an attempt[1] to "translate" the examples in ORBit Beginners
>> Documentation[2] from C to Python. It's still not very far along. I'd
>> love to get some comments on it (especially on the exception
>> handling, they spend a whole lot of code on it in the C code but I
>> have skipped it altogether).
>
>That's great! If you want, wrap that up a bit and we can have it put up
>on a website -- pygtk.org is fine but perhaps there is somewhere else
>more suitable.

I'll post on here when I get it more complete. Then we can see where it
might be nice to put it.

As I mentioned I'd be more than happy to accept contributions ;-)

/M

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