[Development] Repository request: playground/qtscrypt

[Cristián Maureira-Fredes]

On 8/31/22 21:33, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 31/08/2022 20:57, Cristián Maureira-Fredes wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 8/31/22 19:19, Aleix Pol wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 4:47 PM Cristián Maureira-Fredes
>>> <Cristian.Maureira-Fredes at qt.io> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey there,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to request a new repository on codereview.qt-project.org
>>>>
>>>> Name and description: qtscrypt - Script C++ with Python
>>>> Responsible person: Cristián Maureira-Fredes
>>>> (Cristian.Maureira-Fredes at qt.io)
>>>> Desired repository name: playground/qtscrypt
>>>> URL of existing code: https://git.qt.io/crmaurei/qtscrypt
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Won't this be confusing? We have had QtScript for the longest time and
>>> it looks like a typo.
>>
>> thanks for the comments.
>>
>> I was under the impression that changing the 'i' for a 'y'
>> from P'y'thon was not confusing, because it was already
>> mentioned in a couple of talks and nobody mentioned
>> anything against it.
> 
> Even more fun: scrypt is the name of a password encryption algorithm and 
> the corresponding library.
> 
> 
>> I wanted to avoid qtscript-python because it's not really qtscript,
>> it's just the main idea from it.
>>
>> Do you have any other name suggestion?
>> (I really struggled with finding a name)
> 
> QtPython

Hey Konrad,
too close to 'Qt for Python' IMHO

> 
> QtPythonScripting

Could be! even if it's a longer name, it's more descriptive.

> QtPythonAPI

Not really a Python API,

>  > QtYetAnotherPythonBinding

Jokes aside, I think there is a project
called "PyAnotherSide" :)

> 
> QtNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent
> 
> QtBrightSide

Probable copyright issues with the band "The Killers"

> 
> QtHesTheMessiah
> 
> (SCNR)
> 
> 
> Sorry for having completely missed the ball here, but what makes this 
> new Python binding worthwhile when there's already PyQt, Qt-for-Python 
> and PySide?


This idea, as you can see in the code
is to run Python code within C++ code,
quite different from the bindings, but hey,
maybe an example is more clear.

With QtScrypt (Following the idea of the old QtScript module)

You can have C++ code, and at some point that evaluates Python
code and get some result back, say:

QScryptEngine e;
qDebug() << "something, something" << e.evaluate("[i for i in range(10)]");

and you can get a QVariantList with the numerical values,
same idea with a Python function, like:

# your_file.py
def power_of_two(x):
     return x**2

you can call it from C++ like

QScryptModule mod("your_file.py")
QScryptFunction f("power_of_two", &mod);
qDebug() << "power_of_two(4): " << f.call(4);
// you get 16 as a QVariant


So now,
PyQt and PySide
provide bindings Python for the Qt API,
like having:

button = QPushButton("press me!")
button.clicked.connect(some_slot)

on Python files.


> 
> 
> Hopefully it's not a QtDeadParrot, I'd prefer a QtHolyGrail... :-P
> 
> 
> [I'll see myself out now and do something useful instead, sorry.]

No worries, it's useful to ask things are are unknown to ourselves :)

So, as the original email states, this is for a 'playground' repository,
because I was literally playing with this idea on a Hackathon,
and after presenting it in some talks in Qt conferences/workshops,
some folks thought it was something interesting to play with.

> 
>      Konrad


Cheers

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