Jean-Paul Calderone schrieb: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:21:38 +0200, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: >>Michael Foord wrote: >>> A big advantage of using ctypes is that it works cross-implementation - >>> on IronPython and PyPy already and on Jython soon. I'd like to see more >>> standard library modules use it. Distributions that choose not to >>> include it are crippling their Python distribution. >> >>Interesting, I didn't know that IronPython supports ctypes, too. I still >>find ctypes a bit problematic because it doesn't us header files for its >>types, structs and function definitions. > > This is indeed a big problem with ctypes. Fortunately, a project exists > to correct it: > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ctypes_configure/0.1 > > Anyone writing code with ctypes should be looking at ctypes_configure as > well.
There is also another project that uses gccxml to parse the header files and generate ctypes-compatible code. http://web.archive.org/web/20080115092648/starship.python.net/crew/theller/wiki/CodeGenerator Especially well on Windows works the dynamic, on-demand code generation. http://web.archive.org/web/20080115092648/starship.python.net/crew/theller/wiki/CodeGenerator/DynamicModule I do all win32 api programming with this stuff. I should note that the ctypeslib project is not well maintained because I don't have the time for that any longer. -- Thanks, Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
