Readme for missing-py2-1.0.1
missing-py2
A fork of John Goerzen's [MissingPy] softmechanics-missingpy
Updated to run with GHC 7.6.3 and run with Python 2.7.3, for maintaining projects with existing MissingPy dependencies.
see the original documentation for that project here.
Usage
Just add missing-py2
to your build-depends
list, e.g:
build-depends:
base < 5 && >= 4
, missing-py2
The original documentation prescribes that the OverlappingInstances
GHC extension is neccessary anywhere you use the Python.*
modules.
That may be neccessary, however the unit tests seem to run fine without it now.
Don't forget to run py_initialize
from Python.Interpreter
during the start up phase of your application
Requires the python-dev
libs, which can be installed on Ubuntu with sudo apt-get install python-dev
.
See Also
- [softmechanics/missingpy] softmechanics-missingpy : The original project
- cpython : Another set of
libpython
bindings (looks more well-maintained), this would probably be preferable for new projects.