So I was curious whether it's possible to use the ctypes module with C++ and if so how difficult it is. I figure in principal it's possible if ctypes knows about each compiler's name mangling scheme. So I searched for "ctypes c++" on Google.
The third link will be "Using ctypes to Wrap C++ Libraries". If you follow the link, it's broken. If you view the cache of the link, it's someone pointing to another blog, retrograde-orbit.blogspot.com, saying they discovered a way to do it easily. If you follow that link, you get taken a page does not exist error. Clearly there's some way to use ctypes with C++ and there's a vast conspiracy preventing it from reaching the masses ;) What's even stranger is that this link, despite being broken, has seemingly been near the top of google's results for these terms for a couple weeks (that's when I last tried), as if there were some underground group of rebels trying to hint the truth to us... ;) More seriously -- how difficult is it to use ctypes instead of saying, boost::python, and why isn't this in a FAQ somewhere? ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
