RobotLocomotion / drake

Model-based design and verification for robotics.
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pydrake: Develop more Pythonic and user-friendly components #8587

Closed EricCousineau-TRI closed 4 years ago

EricCousineau-TRI commented 6 years ago

My present goal for pydrake is to provide Python wrappings of C++ Drake, prioritizing keeping the same API as C++, as I myself do not want to spend time at the moment developing a brand new API, and would prefer to use pydrake to prototype C++ behavior that, if it under performs in Python, can be more easily translated back to C++ given that the APIs are relatively similar.

At some point, it would be convenient to provide a Python API that is truer to Python, and is more user-friendly. Some goals:

(There were some discussions on slack about this, but since this came up in #8585 , wanted to make sure it's captured in an issue.)

\cc @thduynguyen @ggould-tri @peteflorence

EricCousineau-TRI commented 4 years ago

I think this is too broad of an issue. Closing for now.