[python-win32] modulator: a C extension skeleton generator

[Jorgensen, Jens]

Someone on the list asked me before what the tool was called that 
generates the code skeletons for extension DLLs. I figured it out. Well, 
actually, it had an option to generate a .py which would then use a 
module to generate the skeleton after you tinkered with the GUI. Inside 
of that it had the module name so now I know what it was called: 
modulator. It was included with ActivePython 2.0 I think but doesn't 
seem to be present in 2.1. It also doesn't come up for a search on the 
Vaults of Parnassus. Neither does it show up on a search on the Python 
Starship. Where or where has it gone! I notice that the Python 
documentation under ActivePython Documentation\Python 
Documentation\Extending and Embedding\Extending Python with C and 
C++\1.4 The Module's Method Table and Initialization Function it even 
mentions using the modulator.py script *and* claims it is in the 
distribution. The mystery compounds. A search on Google turns up a post 
in 1995 from Guido van Rossum:

> As Tom Culliton mentions, using Jack Jansen's Modulator doesn't
> automate as much for you, but is also very helpful in generating the
> boilerplate... <URL: ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/jack/modulator.tar.gz>
>
I couldn't hit that ftp site. At long last I found it was still in CVS 
on sourceforge. You can get it with:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.python.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/python co 
python/dist/src/Tools

-- 
Jens B. Jorgensen
jens.jorgensen@tallan.com