Sean’s right, it does look a lot like C++. Still, it enabled Rick to build a Linux-native SHP to SDF conversion tool when the alternative (actual C++) would have been painful. Good to see it being used!
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I’m sure it would have helped if I was actually a Python developer :) It does get the job done though, and, much agreed that it’s a much more rapid approach than C++, especially for something that doesn’t require the same level of “bulletproofness.” I am implementing some stuff on the MapGuide API using JRuby (Ruby on Java VM), which has turned out to be decent with some help from a few wrapper classes. Ultimately I would like to have the time to dust off the old C++ chops and put together an FDO SWIG port for Ruby. The only problems I’ve had so far with Python/SWIG/FDO out of the box is that there’s no reasonable way to access the IoStream classes.