[Python-Dev] Ctypes and the stdlib (was Re: LZMA compression support in 3.3) (original) (raw)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Tue Aug 30 10:57:22 CEST 2011

"Martin v. Löwis", 30.08.2011 10:46:

You might be reading more into that statement than I meant. You have to supply Pyrex/Cython versions of the C declarations, either hand-written or generated by a tool. But you write them based on the advertised C API -- you don't have to manually expand macros, work out the low-level layout of structs, or anything like that (as you often have to do when using ctypes). I can understand how that works when building a CPython extension. But what about creating Jython/IronPython modules with Cython? At what point get the header files considered there?

I had written a bit about this here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/126340/focus=126419

Stefan

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