Greetings monks, I'm trying to leverage the use of Inline::Python to make usage of a python module that unfortunately, currently has no Perl equivalent. I (think) I understand the basic usage of importing a Python class, but I can't figure out how to properly reference the imported classes and objects without having to wrap everything.

For example, my current 'working' code is this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $client = Wrapper->new();
my @res = $client->get('space','key');

use Inline Python => <<'END_OF_PYTHON'
import hyperdex.client

class Wrapper:
  def __init__(self, host='127.0.0.1', port=1982):
    self.client = hyperdex.client.Client(host,port)
  def get(self, *args):
    self.client(get(args[0],args[1])
END_OF_PYTHON
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It'd be nice if I could just do:

my $client = Client->new('127.0.0.1',1982);
$client->get('space','key');
$client->search('space', { a => b, c => d });
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Without having to create wrappers for each class method in the Python library I want to utilize.

I've tried:

my $client = new Client('127.0.0.1',1982);

use Inline Python => <<'END_OF_PYTHON'
import hyperdex.client as Client
END_OF_PYTHON
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That gives me a

Can't bless non-reference value

error. While:

my $client = Client->Client('127.0.0.1',1982);
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Gives me a

Object did not have Inline::Python::Object magic

error.

Are there any monks out there that could provide some insight to utilizing Inline::Python to DWIM?

EDIT: With some help from AnonyMonk and crashtest, I was able to at least get this to somewhat DWIW:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Inline::Python qw(py_eval py_bind_class);
use Data::Dumper;

py_eval(<<'END');
from hyperdex.client import Client

class MyClient(Client):
    def placeholder(self):
        print "Placeholder function"
END

py_bind_class("main::PerlClient","__main__","MyClient");
my $a = new PerlClient('127.0.0.1',1982);
warn Dumper($a->get('space','1234567'));
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It's less wrapping then before, but still seems like more wrapped than should be needed. Or I may be wrong?

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