Re: [Patch-gnuradio] Wrapper for blocks.

[Ben Reynwar]

Realised this patch will mess up any blocks that aren't imported into
gnuradio_swig_python.py.

Clearly I'm either using "make check" incorrectly or there is a fair
bit that it doesn't check.

Cheers,
Ben

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Ben Reynwar <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on better documentation for the python interface to
> gnuradio.  I'd like to get the inline help (python help function)
> returning useful responses and would like to get useful html
> documentation generated.
>
> The current representation of the blocks in python makes this
> difficult.  For example gnuradio.gr.head maps to gr_make_head which is
> a function that produces an instance of gr_head_sptr.  It would be
> nicer for the sake of documentation generation if gnuradio.gr.head was
> a class that looked like gr_head_sptr.
>
> This patch wraps the swig generated gr_XXX_sptr classes in much the
> same way as is currently done for the top_block.  I think this
> additional indirection is justified for the added simplicity it gives
> to the python interface.
>
> I ran "make check" and it didn't appear to break anything, which
> surprises me.  It may be that I'm not "make check"ing correctly.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>