implement pure Python/ctypes solution

[techtonik]

Maybe not for all platoforms, but having a single script without dependencies would be awesome.

[ponty]

Pyscreenshot is a pure Python library. Why do you need a single script? Is it not possible for you to use a library?
I can add a script which calls the library if it helps.

[techtonik]

From the description I understand that pyscreenshot requires at least one binary library to make screens. Pure Python/ctypes means ability to take screens with no 3rd party extensions.

[ponty]

I use "pure Python" for not having C extension module in the library.
This is the same how the Python documentation use it (http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html):
"pure module distribution (only containing pure Python modules and packages),"
"non-pure distributions, which include extensions that would need to be compiled"

Pyscreenshot is not accessing any C library directly so ctypes can not be used for current back-ends. It is of course possible to create new back-ends using ctypes, but I don't know how. Check the "plugins" directory for examples.

[ponty]

new doc page:

http://ponty.github.com/pyscreenshot/struct.html

[techtonik]

Ok. The bug report is - pyscreenshot doesn't work standalone without 3rd party libraries.

Nice page, though - you should consider including PySide there.

[ponty]

I don't know such solution.
That's why pyscreenshot was created.
The strategy is here: pyscreenshot has a lot of back-ends, if at least one exists then it works.

[techtonik]

All backends are user level programs, so a backendless solutions is theoretically possible. The corresponding C code from backend with compatible license can be ported to Python.