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phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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wow, python ctypes

http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/

This is the greatest thing I've ever seen - look through the tutorial

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xerxes2

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From: Malmoe, Sweden

Registered: 2004-04-23

Posts: 1,249

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Re: wow, python ctypes

is it like pyrex?

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phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: wow, python ctypes

no.. it's a direct interface to C

libm = cdll("libm.so")
b = cdouble(20)
result = libm.cos(b)

that, while probably not right, will load libm.so and call cos from that lib... yeah that's not the greatest example in the world... but think of what you can do....

I may be wrong, but pyrex is more of a python extension.... whereas ctypes is actually written in python

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neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

Posts: 553

Re: wow, python ctypes

no.. it's a direct interface to C

libm = cdll("libm.so")
b = cdouble(20)
result = libm.cos(b)

that, while probably not right, will load libm.so and call cos from that lib... yeah that's not the greatest example in the world... but think of what you can do....

I may be wrong, but pyrex is more of a python extension.... whereas ctypes is actually written in python

*cough* , I have an PKGBUILD for it for a long time, since I hoped to get
rox-system working this way, but it failed. Anyway, here is the updated
PKGBUILD

# $Id$
# Contributor: Tobias Kieslich <tobias@justdreams.de>

pkgname=python-ctypes
_srcname=ctypes
pkgver=0.9.6
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="package to manipulat C data types. Allows wrapping C-libs in Python"
url="http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/"
depends=('python>=2.4')
source=(http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$_srcname/$_srcname-$pkgver.tar.gz)

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$_srcname-$pkgver
  python setup.py build
  python setup.py install --root=$startdir/pkg
}
# vim: ft=sh ts=2

neri