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One of the features of Python that makes it so powerful is the ability
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to take existing libraries, written in C or C++, and make them
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available as Python extension modules. Such extension modules are
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often called bindings for the library.
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SIP is a tool that makes it very easy to create Python bindings for C
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and C++ libraries. It was originally developed to create PyQt, the
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Python bindings for the Qt toolkit, but can be used to create bindings
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for any C or C++ library.
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NOTE:
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This package will, by default, overwrite some files contained in the
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stock kdebindings package included in Slackware. The version of sip
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included with kdebindings is an older version which works fine for
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generating qt3/kde3 python bindings, but the newer versions are needed
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to generate qt4 python bindings (pyqt4 on SlackBuilds.org). To the
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best of our knowledge, sip is backwards compatible, so there shouldn't
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be any adverse effects from the overwritten files, but we cannot make
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any promises. If you do encounter problems, remove this sip package
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and reinstall the stock kdebinding package, and then notify the
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maintainer of this build script (see the sip.info file).
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As an alternative, this build script provides a PREFIX variable that
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can be set to select a different installation prefix (such as /opt).
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Doing so will require you to add the directory in which the sip binary
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is located to your PATH, add the sip includes directory to your
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compiler includes search path, and add the sip python module path to
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your PYTHONPATH environment variable. All of these things will have
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to be done manually and in such a way that they take priority over the
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files installed in /usr prefix.
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