Rick Ratzel
3/11/2004

   This directory contains the presentation and demos for the talk entitled
"Using Python as an Extension Language", shown at the PyCon D.C. 2004 Python
conference.

    NOTE: the examples are have only been tested on REDHAT LINUX systems, and
may not work on others (mainly because of the somewhat platform-specific Pico
sources in ex2-C_Elmer).

   The following is a list of files and directories and a description:


html            - link to html dir, located in "presentation" dir

ac              - directory containing scripts for autoconf...check out the *.m4
                  files to see how to use the macros for detecting Python,
                  elmer, and Tcl in your own configure.in files

presentation    - directory containing the presentation entitled "Using Python as
               	  an Extension Language" in both OpenOffice and html formats

configfile      - directory containing the Python source for demos 3 & 4

ex1-C           - example 1 directory: Using Python in C

ex2-C_Elmer     - example 2 directory: Using Elmer to make Python in C easier

ex3-C++_Elmer   - example 3 directory: Using Elmer to run Python from C++

ex4-Tcl_Elmer   - example 4 directory: Using Elmer to run Python from Tcl

configure.in    - use with "autoconf -l ac" to create configure script

setPythonPath   - sets the PYTHONPATH env var for all "warm" examples

runconf         - script which runs configure with settings specific to the
                  author's environments

Makefile.in     - Makefile template used by configure

configure       - run this script with specific settings (if needed) to
                  configure the example's to be built with a specific
                  environment.  This script must be run from the directory
                  in which it resides.

COPYRIGHT       - Copyright and copying info


   The demos incorporate the work of others to illustrate some key points in the
talk.  The following software and the respective authors are listed below.

num2eng.py was written by Miki Tebeka <tebeka@cs.bgu.ac.il>
   http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~tebeka/Software/num2eng.py

piglatin.py was written by Joe Strout
   http://www.strout.net/info/coding/python/tidbits.html

pico was written by Michael Seibel <mikes@cac.washington.edu> 
   http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/unix.html


   All other code and presentation material was written by Rick Ratzel where the
following copyright message applies:


 Copyright (c) 2004 Richard L. Ratzel

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