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@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ + libvirt Python Bindings README + ============================== + +Most of the libvirt python binding code is automatically generated +using the script generator.py, and the API description from +docs/libvirt-api.xml + + +Manually written files: + + - libvirt-override.c: methods where the C binding needs to be hand crafted + - libvirt-override.py: global methods where the C and python bindings have different args + - libvirt-override-api.xml: methods where the auto-extracted API docs are not + suitable for python auto-generator. Overriding this if the method is going + into libvirt-override.c, but we still want auto-generated libvirt-override.py + - libvirt-override-virConnect.py: virConnect class methods + - typewrappers.h,.c: Python object wrappers for each libvirt C object + + +Auto-generated files: + + - libvirt.py: The main python binding. Comprises auto-generated code, along + with contents from libvirt-override.py and libvirt-override-virConnect.py + - libvirt.c, libvirt.h: The C glue layer for the python binding. Comprises + auto-generated code, along with libvirt-override.c + - libvirt-export.c: List of auto-generated C methods, included into + the libvirt-override.c method table |