[Geany] Query regarding plugin creation

[John Gabriele]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:30:53 -0500
>  "Jeff Pohlmeyer" <yetanothergeek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  >
>  > Python support has been discussed here before, but
>  > as far as I know, nobody is currently working on it.
>
>  I just changed the TODO wishlist item for Python scripting to 'Python
>  plugin interface' - IMO there's no need for a competing Python variant
>  of your great Lua plugin. It would be more useful to have Python
>  bindings for the plugin API, so plugins could be written in Python
>  instead of C. This would be harder to write than a Lua user 'script' but
>  would also be more flexible, if it used pygtk. Of course this is only a
>  wishlist item, don't anyone expect it to get done ;-)

Maybe have a look at the now-standard Python ctypes module.

* http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/
* http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ctypes.html

Could be less work than you're expecting.

---John