[Gmod-help] Re: [Gmod-gbrowse] Python plugin

[Sheldon McKay]

I am not up on perl/python interfacing but the plugins rely on the
Bio::Graphics::Plugin as a base class, so I think Dave is right that
you would need a perl wrapper module to talk to the rest of Gbrowse.

Sheldon


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Dave Clements, GMOD Help Desk
<gmodhelp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I think it is safe to say that no one has written a GBrowse plugin in Python
> (although I would love to be contradicted).  I believe that all the issues
> you would encounter would be general ones that anyone hits when calling
> Python from Perl (and I don't know what those are).  I also believe you
> would need to write a wrapper module in Perl that would interface between
> GBrowse and the code that does the actual work.
>
> Dave C.
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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:34 PM, <aculeata at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Would writing a plugin for GBrowse in Python be feasible? Has anyone tried
>> this? Even if it required a lot of interop libraries, what else would it
>> entail? Besides sticking out like a sore thumb, what would the limitations
>> be? Any comments/pointers/rants would be appreciated.
>>
>> thanks in advance
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