On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've a dll and its header file that controls an hardware. I want to write >> a wrapper for this dll in Python. >> What is the best way that I can write a wrapper? >> > > What do you want to do with the wrapper? I'm intending to use STAF - software testing automation framework where I want to test this dll. Test cases for STAF are written in xml and python. So for this I want to write a wrapper class for this dll in python that has Dll API's as the member function of the wrapper class. This class will be in a python module. This module can be then be imported in the test cases thereby exposing the dll APIs for testing. Please suggest if there are better solutions around. > > > I know ctypes modules and have used it before. As far as I know ctypes is >> only used to call the dll functions in a python module. >> > > I am not sure what you mean here. Python code can directly import and call > functions in dlls that represent Python extension modules and that are > placed in the Pythonxx/dlls directory in your Windows Python installation. > Ctypes is mostly used to call functions in a dll that is *not* a python > extension module, that was not written for Python. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Well I did not know this. What is a Python extension module? -- Regrads, Rajat
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