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.TH IVYCPY 3 "Feb, 2003" "ivycpy" "Python library for accessing Ivy Bus"
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.SH NAME
ivycpy \- a Python library for accessing Ivy Bus
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B # importing ivycpy 

.B from ivycpy import *

.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B ivycpy library.

This Python library (actually C wrapper around ivy-c library) allow
to use Ivy bus using Python. This library is a wrapper above ivyc library (3.4)
and procures functions to plug a Python application onto the Ivy Bus.
This version is a very early release (ivycpy213sa stands for ivycpy for
Python 213 - Stand Alone) which embodies ivy object modules,
and procures its own tkinter shared library . Further release should
just rely on dynamic linking with both libivy.so and native _tkinter.so, but
some details stuff required to hack both ivy-c and tkinter themselves, so.
.PP
Ivycpy is developped using SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator),
see http://www.swig.org for further inforation on SWIG.

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.SH EXAMPLES
Some examples of Python scripts are provided in
/usr/share/doc/ivycpy directory .
.SH SEE ALSO
For further information about Ivy, visit the Ivy web site : 
http://www.tls.cena.fr/products/ivy/
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Didier Pavet <pavet@cena.fr>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system.