[Insight-users] Re: WrapITK Python bindings

[Erik Anderson]

VTK definitely does have this feature included in it.  I 
was hoping that this would be a relatively easy thing to 
include in WrapITK, but I'm beginning tho think I was 
wrong.

Erik

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:58:16 +0200
  Gaëtan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There is currently no way to do that with wrapitk, and 
>really, I  don't know how it can be implemented without:
>  - modifying the swig included in cableswig
>  - parsing the xml output of gccxml to get those info
> 
> I think vtk have this kind of feature - perhaps that's a 
>good  starting point?
> 
> Gaëtan
> 
> 
> Le 23 juil. 07 à 17:48, Erik Anderson a écrit :
> 
>> jelle,
>>    I have read the pdf many times, unfortunately. 
>>Basically, I need  
>> a way to programmatically determine type information. 
>> That is to  
>> say if I do something like the following (this is 
>>essentially  
>> pseudo-code as it does not exist in WrapITK):
>>
>> import itk
>> filters = itk.filter_list()
>> for f in filters:
>>     methods = f.methods()
>>     for m in methods:
>>         inputs = m.inputs()
>>         outputs = m.outputs()
>>
>> For ITK, the outputs would typically be itk.Image (I 
>>don't care all  
>> that much about the template types)  but for a method 
>>like:
>>
>> void 
>>itkGradientMagnitudeRecursiveGaussianImageFilter.SetSigma 
>> (float sigma);
>>
>> the following lists would be returned:
>>
>> inputs = [float]
>> output = []
>>
>> While this can be gotten from the documentation, there 
>>seems to be  
>> no way to access this type of information directly 
>>through Python.
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:40:37 +0000 (UTC)
>>  jelle <jelleferinga at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>      This does not really answer my question at all. 
>>>> Where in  
>>>> the WrapITK source should I start thinking about 
>>>>including this  
>>>> functionality?
>>> Hi Erik,
>>> I'm sorry I've misunderstood your question. Concerning 
>>>the types,  
>>> are you
>>> referring to the image types [itk.Image.UC2 for 
>>>example]? Have you  
>>> read the
>>> WrapITK .pdf? 
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