hg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > target but rather C: I need to integrate a printer driver and and would > like if possible to avoid all of the .h stuff involved with SWIG (I am not > being sarcastic): if I can setup my prototypes directly in python, why go > through an extra layer ? > > Aren't ctypes better suited to such an application ?
One advantage of solutions generating C code that gets compiled (SWIG, Pyrex, writing C-API code directly, etc) is that the C compiler can warn you, or produce compile-time mistakes, for many kinds of programming errors; with ctypes, you will instead be finding every such error at runtime, each time by noticing that Python crashed and facing a substantial amount of debugging and code inspection to find out why. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
