Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] New Features in 3.6.3

[Tom Rondeau]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Roy Thompson <address@hidden> wrote:

I am starting to play around with 3.6.3rc0 a little bit.  I'm excited
about the new message passing infrastructure and the Python-based
signal processing blocks.  In fact, I would really like to be able to
create Python-based blocks that use the new message infrastructure.
However, as best I can tell this is not currently possible since the
message_port_xxx functions are not being exposed to Python.  Is that
accurate?  If so, are there any plans to marry them together in the
future?

Thanks,
Roy

That shouldn't be impossible to support. In general, I'm not a huge fan of using the Python blocks for efficiency reasons. I always look at them as a way to prototype an new block or algorithm before converting it into C++. But I know some people like to use them as framers or frame/packet oriented workers.

I've added this as Issue #508.

Thanks,

Tom