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From: Graham Dumpleton <grahamd@dscpl.com.au>
Subject: Re: It's that time of the year again
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:45:23 +1000
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On 17/04/2006, at 4:27 PM, Nick Kew wrote:

> On Monday 17 April 2006 07:13, Ian Holsman wrote:
>
> OK, let's play ...
>
> - Language bindings (mod_[perl|python|etc]) for new goodies
>   like DBD and XMLNS

This possibly ties up with something which I was intending to one day  
implement
in mod_python. That is to export from mod_python, as optional  
functions, functions
which would allow one to get access to the Python interpreter  
instances plus other
functions for accessing/creating Python wrappers for request, server  
and filter
objects.

The original intent of doing this was so that module writers using C  
code could
access the Python interpreters already managed by mod_python and then
provide a means in their own module of being able to use Python code.

The particular use case I was seeing this as being targeted at was so  
as to be
able to implement a mod_dav_python. That is, mod_dav_python is primarily
a C based module which hooks into mod_dav and bridges the C hooks  
into hooks
implemented in Python. The mod_dav_python would need to provide Python
wrapper classes for all the mod_dav structures, but at least it  
doesn't have to
duplicate what mod_python does in the way of interpreter management and
wrappers for request object etc. Overall this could allow a mod_dav  
filesystem
to be implemented in Python.

The same set of optional functions exported from mod_python may be  
useful for
implementing your suggestion. It is certainly a preferable approach  
to making
mod_python understand something like mod_dav and embedding the support
within it as standard.

Graham