[Python-Dev] Ctypes and the stdlib (was Re: LZMA compression support in 3.3) (original) (raw)
Simon Cross hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 13:40:43 CEST 2011
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On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
2) It is not trivial to use it correctly. I think it needs a SWIG-like companion script that can write at least first-pass ctypes code from the .h header files. Or maybe it could/should use header info at runtime (with the .h bundled with a module).
This is sort of already available:
-- http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/old/codegen.html -- http://svn.python.org/projects/ctypes/trunk/ctypeslib/
It just appears to have never made it into CPython. I've used it successfully on a small project.
Schiavo Simon
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