= arm4module =
[[Arm4Toc]]

{{{arm4module}}} provides Python language bindings for ARM 4.

== News ==

04/22/2009: Now part of Fedora 10 and later. You can install this using the python-arm4 package.

12/23/2007: Version 0.1 released.

== Documentation ==

Type '{{{pydoc arm4}}}' for more information, or [http://www.arm4.org/Python/arm4.html see the latest version online]

== How to use it ==

Here's a simple example:
{{{
  import arm4

  # Register
  app_id = arm4.register_application ("Python test")
  tran_id = arm4.register_transaction (app_id, "Python hello world")

  # Start our application and transaction measurements
  app_handle = arm4.start_application (app_id, "Example")
  tran_handle = arm4.start_transaction (app_handle, tran_id)

  # Do our work
  print 'Hello, world!'

  # Stop our measurements
  arm4.stop_transaction (tran_handle) # Default status is arm4.ARM_STATUS_GOOD
  arm4.stop_application (app_handle)

  # Finish up
  arm4.destroy_application (app_id)
}}}

More examples are available [wiki:arm4module/Examples here]

== Availability ==

All downloads are now available in the [https://sourceforge.net/projects/arm4 SourceForge] downloads area. You can also install this on your Fedora Linux system using the python-arm4 package (Fedora 10 and later).

== Build Directions ==

First build the module

{{{
 python setup.py build
}}}

Then as root, install

{{{
 python setup.py install
}}}