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1To enable HarfBuzz bindings for Python among other languages, make sure
2you have latest version of gobject-introspection available.  On Ubuntu,
3you can install that this way:
4
5```bash
6sudo apt-get install libgirepository1.0-dev
7```
8
9And then run `meson setup` and make sure that `Introspection` is reported
10enabled in output.
11
12Compile and install.
13
14Make sure you have the installation lib dir in `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, as needed
15for the linker to find the library.
16
17Then make sure you also have `GI_TYPELIB_PATH` pointing to the resulting
18`$prefix/lib/girepository-*` directory.
19
20Make sure you have pygobject installed.  Then check that the following
21import works in your Python interpreter:
22
23```python
24from gi.repository import HarfBuzz
25```
26
27If it does, you are ready to call HarfBuzz from Python!  Congratulations.
28See [`src/sample.py`](src/sample.py).
29
30The Python API will change.  Let us know on the mailing list if you are
31using it, and send lots of feedback.
32