[PyKDE] Re: [eric3]api file generation

[Timothy Reaves]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 14.07.06 10:15:35, Timothy Reaves wrote:
>> 	How are these files in general supposed to be created?  I see the two scripts, 
>> one that generates for python and one for sip.  But I can find no information 
>> on a generic script, where I can simply pass it a directory as an argument, and 
>> it'll generate an api file for that.
> 
> Write your own. Looking at the api files it does nothing more than
> extract all "symbols" out of the python api and the modules it finds
> installed. 
> 
> If the python modules you need API for are already installed, running
> gen_python_api.py should be enough, I think.
> 
> Andreas
> 
	Yes, thank you Andreas, for pointing out the obvious.  Very helpful.  I 
find it hard to believe I'm the first person to want to do this.  And as 
a developer, I so love reinventing the wheel.