Author: Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com> Branch: Changeset: r336:7f4364b67ba6 Date: 2012-06-14 16:09 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/7f4364b67ba6/
Log: start to rewrite README diff --git a/README.md b/README.md --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,24 @@ cffi ==== -Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code. +Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code. The aim of this project +is to provide a convinient and reliable way of calling C code from Python. +The interface is based on `luajit FFI`_ and follows few principles: + +* Able to call C from Python without introducing a third language + (unlike Cython or SWIG) + +* Keep all the python-related logic in Python instead of C (unlike CPython + native C extensions) + +* Be complete and work on the level of API (unlike ctypes) + +.. _`luajit FFI`: http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html + +Simple example +-------------- + +xxx Contact ------- _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
