Christian Heimes schrieb: > Hrvoje Niksic schrieb: >> "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> writes: >> >>> The answer is easy: if you use C, you can use ctypes to create a >>> wrapper - with pure python, no compilation, no platform issues. >> >> The last part is not true. ctypes doesn't work on 64-bit >> architectures, nor does it work when Python is built with non-gcc Unix >> compilers > > ctypes works on 64bit systems, too. However it's a pain in the ... back > to write code with ctypes that works across all platforms. I used to use > ctypes for wrapper but eventually I switched to Cython. >
I have plans to add the types from the ansi-c standard to ctypes, like these: stddef.h: ptrdiff_t, size_t, wchar_t signal.h: sig_atomic_t stdio.h: FILE, fpos_t, stderr, stdout, stdin stdlib.h: div_t, ldiv_t time.h: clock_t, time_t, struct tm Do you think that would have helped for writing cross-platform wrappers? Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
