On 1/4/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ognjen Bezanov schrieb: > > I have some external C libraries I would like to use with python. > > > > I have been searching on the internet and found many such > > modules/bindings for libraries (e.g. Py-Lame) but have not yet > > come across any information of how to actually go about creating such > > bindings, so I was wondering if anybody here could point me in the right > > direction? > > There are several methods. One is to write a Python C module by hand, > using the Python C API: > > http://docs.python.org/ext/ext.html > http://docs.python.org/api/api.html > > Essentially, all you need is a DLL/shared-object with an init > function. > > Other solutions include tools that generate extension modules > automatically (such as SWIG or Pyrex), or using libraries on > top of the C API (such as Boost.Python). > > I personally always use the C API directly. > > Regards, > Martin
Don't forget calling the using the external library directly from Python by using ctypes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
