Python Based API

[Laurent Pointal]

Dean.Brotzel at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I work on a project that is built entirely using python and Tkinter.
> We are at the point where we would like to give access to our
> functionality to others via some sort of API.  People who would use
> our API develop in all kinds of languages from C/C++ to Pascal.
> 
> Ideas that come to mind that allow us to build such an API are:
> 
> 1)    Require others to imbed the python interpreter via the c API to be
> able to utilize our functionality.
> 2)    Build an XML RPC interface around our code.
> 3)    Rewrite our code base in C/C++, which should make it accessible to
> all modern languages.
> 
> I'm looking for more and potentially better ideas that will allow us
> to offer an API to our customers without having to throw away or redo
> a lot of the python code that we have already written.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Dean

IMHO the simplest solution is XML RPC, and unless you have huge data to
transmit or time constraint, it may be enough.