Python plug-in Frameworks like Eclipse RCP...

[Jim Hargrave]

Eclipse provides a very nice application framework which supports
plug-ins. It's easy to dynamically add new functionality, menu items,
property editors, options etc.. using a combination of XML and Java code.

Is there a similar framework for Python? If not any hints on how such a
framework would be implemented?

I'm building a client side tool using Python/wxPython for our
translators and would like to have a pluggable architecture similar to
Eclipse RCP
thanks!

[Jim Hargrave]

Hum, maybe my question was too specific. What I would really like to
know is what is the best way to implement a Python application with a
pluggable architecture. In particular, I would like to use wxPython and
have plug ins automatically register themselves with the GUI by adding
themselves to the mean or adding a tab. Again this is much like Eclipse
RCP - but forget that part :-)

J

Jim Hargrave wrote:

Eclipse provides a very nice application framework which supports
plug-ins. It's easy to dynamically add new functionality, menu items,
property editors, options etc.. using a combination of XML and Java code.

Is there a similar framework for Python? If not any hints on how such a
framework would be implemented?

I'm building a client side tool using Python/wxPython for our
translators and would like to have a pluggable architecture similar to
Eclipse RCP
thanks!

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Jim Hargrave wrote:

Hum, maybe my question was too specific. What I would really like to
know is what is the best way to implement a Python application with a
pluggable architecture. In particular, I would like to use wxPython and
have plug ins automatically register themselves with the GUI by adding
themselves to the mean or adding a tab. Again this is much like Eclipse
RCP - but forget that part :-)

This is close to beeing trivial in python - just utilize __import__ to
dynamically load modules that shall act as plugins. These modules then only
have to follow a sort of protocol - lets say you have a module called

pluginloader.py

that has a register-function. The loaded module could import pluginloader
and register itself, or a class defined in itself. Like this

---------plugin_example.py-------------

import pluginloader
class ExamplePlugin(pluginloader.PluginBase):
def __init__(self,...):
....

pluginloader.register(ExamplePlugin())

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch