Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: PyCLP
Version: 0.8
Summary: Interface to ECLiPSe CLP
Home-page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyclp/
Author: Oreste Bernardi
Author-email: <name>@<name>.eu  name=oreste
License: Simplified BSD
Description: Introduction
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        `PyCLP <https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyclp>`_ 
        is a Python library to interface ECLiPSe Constraint Programmig System.
        
        This module try to implement a pythonic interface to `ECLiPSe <http://www.eclipseclp.org/>`_ 
        (alias easy to use) by compromising on a little bit on performance.
        
        
        Major differences from ECLiPSe standard interface libraries
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        The main difference compared to embedded interface provided  by ECLiPSe system is 
        the persistence of constructed terms after calling the :py:func:`pyclp.resume` (check 
        `3.1.2  Building ECLiPSe terms <http://www.eclipseclp.org/doc/embedding/embroot008.html#toc11>`_ ) function.
        In ECLiPSe standard interfaces compound terms are destroyed after resume while in PyCLP are
        stored in a reference that survives after resuming. PyCLP will destroy the reference only when python
        destroys the linked python object (garbage collection). This consumes more memory but now
        the python object and the related ECLiPSe object have the same *lifetime*.
        
        Moreover, in the definition of the API I tried to take advantage of a common propety of python and 
        ECLiPSe: both are weak typed languages.
        
        
        Next steps
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           * Extend functionality of set_option function
          
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Programming Language :: Prolog
