[vtk-developers] Python wrapping of namespaces

[David Gobbi]

Hi Adam,

So PLUS is being used at Robarts now!  That's nice, big parts of PLUS were
built on top of code that was originally developed at Robarts.  Long live
open source!

The quick answer is, no, you cannot wrap classes within a namespace.  The
VTK python wrappers only allow namespaces to be used for enum constants.

I started working on a solution to this back in 2013, it isn't an easy fix
because all the work on the wrappers so far has assumed that everything
exists in a single flat namespace.  Now of course I would love to complete
what I started, but like many of my free-time projects, I have no timeline
for when it might be done.

 - David


On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Adam Rankin <arankin at robarts.ca> wrote:

> Hello all,
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> I am a developer with the PLUS library, and we are having a discussion
> with regards to class name cleanup/unification. We brought up moving
> classes into a namespace, but wanted to keep the option of wrapping the
> library in Python.
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> My colleague mentioned that vtk objects in namespaces were not wrappable
> in the past, and I was wondering if it is now possible to wrap namespaced
> classes in python?
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> Cheers,
>
> Adam
>
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