RE: [RFC net-next 3/4] ynl: add a sample python library

["Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>]

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> From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2022 4:08 PM
> To: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>;
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> Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 3/4] ynl: add a sample python library
> 
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:42:53 +0100 Edward Cree wrote:
> > > It would be great if python had standard module for netlink.
> > > Then your code could just (re)use that.
> > > Something like mnl but for python.
> >
> > There's pyroute2, that seemed alright when I used it for something
> >  a few years back, and I think it has the pieces you need.
> > https://pyroute2.org/
> 
> I saw that and assumed that its true to its name and only supports
> RTNL :( I'll reach out to Peter the maintainer for his thoughts.
> 
> This patch was meant as a sample, I kept trying to finish up the C
> codegen for a week and it still didn't feel presentable enough for
> the RFC. In practice I'd rather leave writing the language specific
> libs to the experts.

It has some generic netlink support, but the way it parses messages was a bit confusing to me. It could benefit from the automatic generation of attribute parsing though!