[Python-3000] Ctypes as cross-interpreter C calling interface (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Aug 11 03:47:38 CEST 2006


Paul Prescod wrote:

It seems that the emerging consensus (bar a security question from Guido) is that ctypes it the way forward for calling C code in Python 3000. I'd like to clarify what this might mean:

What's the state of play concerning ctypes support on non-x86 platforms?

Until ctypes is uniformly supported on all platforms, it can't be considered a complete replacement for C-coded extensions (whether handwritten or generated by something else).

-- Greg



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