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

[Sheldon McKay]

Correction: I meant Bio::Graphics::Browser::Plugin

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Sheldon McKay <sheldon.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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.
>> GMOD Help Desk
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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.
>>>
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