I want an ODE ctypes binding. I dont want to use the Pyrex PyODE.
I've started some work, which you can see here. http://svn.xerian.net/xerian.net/ode/ I've looked at Alex Holkners works on pygame-ctypes. Being the lazy programmer I am, I've taken a few shortcuts. I've written a set of functions which grab the ctypes function pointer from the dll, add the restype and argtypes attributes, and magically insert the (possibly) mangled (into a more pep 8 style) name into the module namespace via globals(). A function needs to be explicitly dereferenced if it returns a pointer. I'd like to be more lazy, and parse the .h files for ODE_API functions, but I havent worked out how to do that yet, other than using grep and cut + paste ;-) Before I continue with this approach, I'm looking for some feedback. Does this style smell bad? Am I going to run into problems using magic globals() insertion? Does anyone want to help :-) -Sw.
