> 1) I can't find an API call to get to know, whether the current thread > has the global interpreter lock or not. ( A recursive lock would also help). Sorry, this is not supported. (It's a contentious issue -- search the archives for more info, I don't have the time to shed more light on it.) > 2) I would like to hook into the python import mechanism in order to > introduce new classes. I currently do this by replacing the > __builtin__.__dict__["__import__"] with my own version, which delegates > to the original function and in case of failure tries to lookup a UNO type. > > This allows e.g. by writing > > from com.sun.star.uno import XComponent > > to elegantly create such UNO types. > > However, I think, the replace-__import__-function is quite a nasty > solution, I would rather like to have an API for this. Is there an API I > have overlooked (or is it planned to have something like that ? ). No, replacing __import__ is the designated API for this. > 3) The Python-UNO bridge can be used within the python process or within > the office process itself ( so called UNO components). For the latter, > the binding initializes python by calling Py_Initialize(). > > As you might know, OpenOffice.org comes as a binary (not in source) even > on unix platforms. But I don't want to decide at buildtime, which Python > version the user should use (and actually I don't want to ship python), > instead I want to reuse a python version, which already exists on the > system. > > But currently, the python unix buildprocess does not create a shared > library, only a static lib (while on windows a shared library gets built). > > Are there any plans to add also a shared libs for unix ? Python 2.3 does this for Linux. But I think you would be better off shipping your own Python -- depending on whatever Python version happens to be installed is very brittle, especially if (as you are) you're using the extension C API. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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