[Insight-developers] itk and ipython interaction enhancement

[Brad King]

Gaetan Lehmann wrote:
> I wrote a small module for python which give an easier access to itk  
> classes (file in attachement).
> all classes are in itk module and are not prefixed with itk, template  
> types are attributes of the filter class, and methods of a filter is  
> avaible as attribute of the type.
> For example itkRescaleIntensityImageFilterF2F2_New() is called with  
> itk.RescaleIntensityImageFilter.F2F2.New().
> The main difference with InsightToolkit module is for completion with  
> ipython. When I heat <tab>, I can easily find the class I need. With  
> InsightToolkit module, it's really hard, because there is so much  
> attributes in the module.
> 
> Another interesting feature with this module, is to easily change 
> filter  type in all the script. As we do in C++, we can "declare" types 
> which will  be used by several filters :

Cool!  Please create a feature request in the bug tracker:

http://www.itk.org/Bug

Once it is created you can go back in and attach your module.

Thanks,
-Brad