endless-sky-bindings 0.0.14
Python bindings for Endless Sky C++ code

# Endless Sky bindings for Python

Play with the Endless Sky C++ classes from Python or interact with the game as it runs.

    pip install endless-sky-bindings

This library does not include the Endless Sky data, so to load that data you'll need to find the installed copy on your system or clone the [Endless Sky repo](https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky) to get it. The code samples below assume a checkout of endless-sky at ~/endless-sky.

## Library

Once you get a handle on the endless_sky.bindings module (bound to 'es' variable here),
C++ classes are exposed to Python pretty directly; for documentation, see
[the header files in Endless Sky](https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/tree/master/source).

```
>>> from endless_sky.loader import load_data
>>> es = load_data(resources="/Users/tomb/endless-sky")
>>> ships = es.GameData.Ships() # these objects correspond to 
>>> ships.<tab><tab>
ships.Get(   ships.Has(   ships.size(
>>> shuttle = ships.Get("Shuttle")
<endless_sky.bindings.Ship object at 0x1087391b0>
>>> ship = es.Ship(shuttle)  # make a copy to avoid modifying the template
>>> ship.<tab><tab>
ship.Acceleration(          ship.Hull(                  ship.Mass(
ship.AddCrew(               ship.HyperdriveFuel(        ship.MaxReverseVelocity(
ship.Attributes(            ship.IdleHeat(              ship.MaxVelocity(
ship.BaseAttributes(        ship.IsBoarding(            ship.MaximumHeat(
... and many more, see header files for documentation
>>> ship.Attributes().Attributes()
<endless_sky.bindings.Dictionary object at 0x1087392f0>
>>> dict(ship.Attributes().Attributes())
{'bunks': 6.0, 'cargo space': 20.0, 'drag': 1.7000000000000002, ...}
>>> ship.SetName("Summer Breeze")
>>> x.Name()
'Summer Breeze'
```

Warning: endless_sky.bindings contains non-resetable singletons like GameData, so once you load some data (directly with GameData.BeginLoad(), with a load_data, or indirectly with a parser function) you can't unload that data without exiting Python.

## Command line use

Loading data files:
```
% echo -e 'ship Rocket\n\tattributes\n\t\tdrag 10' > myData.txt
$ python -m endless_sky load --empty-resources myData.txt  # only prints ships atm
'Rocket': {'drag': 10.0, 'gun ports': 0.0, 'turret mounts': 0.0},
$ python -m endless_sky load -- --resources ~/endless-sky
{'Aerie': {'bunks': 28.0,
           'capture attack': 1.8000000000000003,
           'capture defense': 2.4000000000000004,
           'cargo space': 50.0,
...
$ # In order to parse a file with vanilla outfits defined, use --resources
$ python -m endless_sky load --resources ~/endless-sky myData.txt
{'Aerie': {'bunks': 28.0,
...
<'Rocket' is somewhere in here>
...
```

Runing the game and a Python interpreter at the same time:
```
$ python -m endless_sky run --resources ~/endless-sky --default-config
```

# Building from source

```
git clone --recursive git@github.com:thomasballinger/endless-sky-bindings-python.git
cd endless-sky-bindings-python
```

---

Mac
```
brew install libmad libpng jpeg-turbo SDL2 openal-soft
```

Linux
```
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libopenal-dev libmad0-dev libglew-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev uuid-dev
```

Windows
```
Invoke-WebRequest https://endless-sky.github.io/win64-dev.zip -OutFile win64-dev.zip
Expand-Archive win64-dev.zip -DestinationPath . -Force
Remove-Item win64-dev.zip
```

---

```
cd endless_sky/endless-sky
patch -p1 < ../../patch.diff
cd ../..
pip install 
```

# Dev notes

## Updating the Endless Sky patch

These bindings use a patched version of Endless Sky to patch out threads and make a few other changes.

To update the patch:

- make changes in the submodule at endless_sky/endless-sky
- with that directory as the working directory, run `git diff > ../../patch.diff`

This is likely to be necessary after updating the version of Endless Sky used.

This patch is intended to be the minimum to make Python bindings work; if this repo is combined with Emscripten-compiled JavaScript bindings at a later date it will need to be expanded.