Hello,
I want to use a collection of C libraries in python via ctypes and a ctypes
code generator.  I have no problem using ctypes to call functions in the
library,  but I have to set up the argtypes and restype arguments for each
function, which is a pain given that there are hundreds of functions
involved.  There are also C structs used for state and parameter passing,
and I don't want to have to manually create in ctypes (via "class
blah(Structure): ...") a Python mirror to each and every field.

I know that ctypeslib should be the right tool for the job:

http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/wiki/CodeGenerator

However, my version of either gcc or gccxml is leading to xml output that
can't be correctly parsed by the xml2py part of ctypeslib.  The argtypes and
restype stuff is set for all the functions, but the python declaration of
the structs is empty ("class blah(Structure):   pass").

On the ctypes-users mailing list, Thomas Heller warned that ctypeslib is not
really maintained anymore, and wasn't surprised that recent versions of
gccxml led to this problem.  He suggested that some part of pyglet might
also be able to do python code generation for ctypes, which brings me here.

I know that this isn't the main purpose of pyglet, but I've searched around
some and can't find an answer to this: is there a way to use pyglet, or
something associated with pyglet, to generate Python class definitions of C
structs, by parsing C headers?

thanks,
Gordon

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