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Naivego bindings towards the C-API of CPython-2.

this package provides ago package named "python" under which most of thePyXYZ functions and macros of the public C-API of CPython have been exposed.

theoretically, you should be able to just look at:

http://docs.python.org/c-api/index.html

and know what to type in yourgo program.

this package also provides an executable "go-python" which just loads "python" and then callpython.Py_Main(os.Args).the rational being that under such an executable,go based extensions for C-Python would be easier to implement (as this usually means calling intogo fromC through some rather convoluted functions hops)

WithGo 1 and thego tool,cgo packages can't pass anymoreadditionalCGO_CFLAGS from external programs (exceptpkg-config)to the "fake"#cgo preprocessor directive.

go-python now usespkg-config to get the correct location ofheaders and libraries.Unfortunately, the naming convention for thepkg-config package isnot standardised across distributions and OSes, so you may have toedit thecgoflags.go file accordingly.

 $ go get github.com/sbinet/go-python

Ifgo get +pkg-config failed:

 $cd go-python $ edit cgoflags.go $ make VERBOSE=1

Note: you'll need the proper header andpython development environment. On Debian, you'll need to install thepython-all-dev package

Is available ongodoc:

http://godoc.org/github.com/sbinet/go-python

package mainimport"fmt"import"github.com/sbinet/go-python"funcinit() {err:=python.Initialize()iferr!=nil {panic(err.Error())   } }funcmain() {gostr:="foo"pystr:=python.PyString_FromString(gostr)str:=python.PyString_AsString(pystr)fmt.Println("hello [",str,"]")}

$ go run ./main.gohello [ foo ]

• fix handling of integers (I did a poor job at making sure everything was ok)

• add CPython unit-tests

• do not exposeC.FILE pointer and replace it withos.File in "go-python" API

• provide an easy way to extend go-python withgo based extensions

• think about the need (or not) to translate CPython exceptions into go panic/recover mechanism

• use SWIG to automatically wrap the whole CPython api ?