Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 20:04:40 01/15/04
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On January 15, 2004 at 16:17:52, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >I guess I should give it a try. You know of any good tutorial websites? > >And, is it possible to acces a dll from Python? As I always write the core of my >programs in C/C++ anyway, regardless of the GUI language. As Andrei mentioned, you can use boost::python (boost is your friend!) to create python modules written in C/C++. I have seriously considered writing the low level stuff and exporting it as a chess python module, then writing everything else in python. I haven't had the time I'd like to be able to use and learn python more, but when I have used it, I enjoyed it very much (and I can't remember thinking that about any other language). I remember when I was still learning the basic language facilities, and I read some code from a newsgroup post. I was very suprised that I could understand the code perfectly, even though the poster used nondescriptive variable names and data structures I had not yet learned (like dictionaries). The only drawback I could think of is that if you plan on distributing your program, it might be a little more headache either for you (to have an installer that installs python) or for the user (to install python). And that you would have to distribute the source code. Then I found py2exe, which will create standalone windows programs from your python script. So...I guess that removes all of the excuses for me... :)
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