Comments on: Box of horrors http://www.brainfold.org/blog/2008/07/01/box-of-horrors/ On Python, game development and everything Fri, 21 May 2010 13:34:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: kne http://www.brainfold.org/blog/2008/07/01/box-of-horrors/comment-page-1/#comment-1980 kne Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:29:13 +0000 http://www.brainfold.org/blog/?p=83#comment-1980 I will have to check out pymunk, thanks for the tip. As far as designing the API goes, I'd love some help with it, but I likely won't be able to seriously work on it for a month or so. If you have any ideas on how you'd like it to work, be sure to get in touch with me and we can chat about it. :) I will have to check out pymunk, thanks for the tip.

As far as designing the API goes, I’d love some help with it, but I likely won’t be able to seriously work on it for a month or so. If you have any ideas on how you’d like it to work, be sure to get in touch with me and we can chat about it. :)

]]> By: Jussi Lepistö http://www.brainfold.org/blog/2008/07/01/box-of-horrors/comment-page-1/#comment-1853 Jussi Lepistö Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:52:14 +0000 http://www.brainfold.org/blog/?p=83#comment-1853 Thanks for the reply! To be fair, I know first-hand how hard it is to make Python bindings of C++ libraries, so I don't really blame you. But I can also tell that I would be seriously interested in pyBox2d if it actually did have a Pythonic API instead of a copy of the C++ one. See pymunk for a nice API that is reasonably similar to the original (chipmunk) but still quite Pythonic. Too bad chipmunk seems to be the slower of these two libraries, and the one with less features... EDIT: Also, if you would like help designing the API, I think I can spare a little time for that. :) Thanks for the reply!

To be fair, I know first-hand how hard it is to make Python bindings of C++ libraries, so I don’t really blame you. But I can also tell that I would be seriously interested in pyBox2d if it actually did have a Pythonic API instead of a copy of the C++ one. See pymunk for a nice API that is reasonably similar to the original (chipmunk) but still quite Pythonic. Too bad chipmunk seems to be the slower of these two libraries, and the one with less features…

EDIT: Also, if you would like help designing the API, I think I can spare a little time for that. :)

]]> By: kne http://www.brainfold.org/blog/2008/07/01/box-of-horrors/comment-page-1/#comment-1849 kne Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:34:57 +0000 http://www.brainfold.org/blog/?p=83#comment-1849 As the author of pybox2d, Sorry to hear that you don't like the API. I wanted to leave it basically as the C version for users to make it fit their project/be Pythonic as they please. Even so, I expected a bit of interest in it and people to want to work together with me to create a nice and simple API. As the response has been all but underwhelming (practically nonexistent), that doesn't look like a possibility. Oh well! Glad to hear you tried it, in any case. Good luck with your courses. As the author of pybox2d, Sorry to hear that you don’t like the API. I wanted to leave it basically as the C version for users to make it fit their project/be Pythonic as they please.

Even so, I expected a bit of interest in it and people to want to work together with me to create a nice and simple API. As the response has been all but underwhelming (practically nonexistent), that doesn’t look like a possibility.

Oh well! Glad to hear you tried it, in any case. Good luck with your courses.

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