How to include Python Modules in a D Program?

[Bill Baxter]

Jon wrote:
> It sounds like either way is not that easy. -_- 

No, it's not 'import my.python.modules.*' easy.
But it's also not all that complicated, just a little tedious.

> There wouldn't be a 
> python to D convertor anywhere would there? Something like the .h to .d 
> convertor?

No, and there probably never will be because the languages are just too 
different.

> "Kirk McDonald" <kirklin.mcdonald at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:fd9g3b$2sbh$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Jon wrote:
>>> What would be higher level than this?
>>>
>>> I was hoping for something that would be easy to use and allow me to 
>>> include all the python modules. Is there an example of some kind for 
>>> python module you linked? I just import that in my D program and then 
>>> link to all the modules?
>>>
>>> What would be the best course of action for this many modules? Maybe 
>>> write a module in D that used that python module and all it does is 
>>> wrap the python modules to cleaner code? I looked briefly at the PyD 
>>> site, but they tend to have examples showing how to include D modules 
>>> into Python. :( Did I miss something?
>>>
>>> Thanks for replying and taking an interest in helping me. :)
>>>
>>> Oh, by the way, I use GDC on Linux. It is the latest GDC version. I 
>>> am also using Python v2.5.x
>>>
>>
>> Pyd is geared towards /extending/ Python with D code. It wraps much of 
>> the raw Python/C API with a great deal of template trickery. It does 
>> this pretty well, if I may say so.
>>
>> Pyd also comes with an extension to Python's distutils, which makes 
>> building these extension modules relatively painless.
>>
>> You want to /embed/ Python in your D program. You can certainly do 
>> this. The Python/C API has support for this. However, it is frequently 
>> easier to extend rather than embed. This page covers many of the 
>> arguments why:
>>
>> http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/glyph/rant/extendit.html
>>
>> If you decide to go the embedding route, you'll basically end up using 
>> the Python/C API directly for most things. You can still use Pyd, 
>> though. It provides a number of very useful utilities for tying D to 
>> Python (e.g. value conversion functions), even if you can't use its 
>> high-level function and class wrapping interface. The PydObject class 
>> in particular may be useful. (Though some careful attention will need 
>> to be paid to how the D GC and the Python interpreter interact.)
>>
>> Even if you don't use Pyd, you will need the D bindings to the 
>> Python/C API, the most complete version of which is part of the Pyd 
>> project. Bill already linked to these. I will link to them again:
>>
>> http://dsource.org/projects/pyd/browser/trunk/infrastructure/python/python.d 
>>
>>
>> Building such applications is not covered by Pyd. Usually, you just 
>> need to pass in the right version flags and link against the Python 
>> runtime.
>>
>> -- 
>> Kirk McDonald
>> http://kirkmcdonald.blogspot.com
>> Pyd: Connecting D and Python
>> http://pyd.dsource.org 
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