GeanyPy

Write Geany plugins in Python!

Please note: since GeanyPy is under heavy development, the API it exposes may change quite drastically. If you start using GeanyPy to write plugins, drop me a line and I'll do my best to not break your code.

Update: There's now some documentation available, visit http://codebrainz.github.com/geanypy to read it.

How it works

In the src/ directory is a normal Geany plugin (plugin.c) which loads the Python interpreter. It then loads some C Python modules (dialogs.c, documents.c, etc.) that interface with Geany's C API. After that, it loads the geany Python module which is just glue/sugar-coating to make the C module more "Pythonic".

To write a plugin, inherit from the geany.Plugin class and implmenent the required members (see geany/plugin.py documentation comments). Then put the plugin in a searched plugin path. Currently two locations are search for plugins. The first is PREFIX/lib/geany and the recommended location is under your personal Geany directory (usually ~/.config/geany/plugins). To load or unload plugins, use Geany's regular Plugin Manager. Python plugins appear there once GeanyPy is activated.

When the Python Console plugin is enabled, it will add a new tab to the notebook in the message window area that contains an interactive Python shell with the geany module pre-imported. You can tinker around with API with this console, for example:

import geany # called automatically in the built-in interactive shell

doc = geany.document.open("/some/file/here")

print(doc.file_name)
print(doc.file_type.display_name)

geany.dialogs.show_msgbox("Hello World")

geany.main_widgets.window.set_title("Hello Window")

def on_document_open(doc):
    print("Document '%s' was opened" % doc.file_name)

geany.signals.connect('document-open', on_document_open)

Dependencies

To build GeanyPy you need the following dependencies:

• Python 2.6+ and development files (I don't think Python 3 will work).
• Geany 0.21+ and development files (from SVN)
• PyGTK 2.0 and development files

On Debian/Ubuntu, the (non-Geany) dependencies can be installed like this:

$ apt-get install python python-dev python-gtk2 python-gtk2-dev

See Geany's documentation/website for information on compiling it from the Subversion or Git repositories.

Installation

First you need to know where Geany is installed:

$ GEANY_PREFIX=`pkg-config --variable=prefix geany`

The you can install as normal:

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --prefix=$GEANY_PREFIX
$ make
# make install

You should be able to force a specific version of Python to be used, by using the PYTHON_VERSION environment variable, but I've only tested with 2.6.6 so far. I imagine 2.7 series will also work fine.

Running on Windows

See README.win32 for more information.