On Sunday, March 23, 2014 6:37:11 PM UTC+5:30, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote: > Simon Hardy-Francis wrote: > > Hi Python fans, I just released my first open source project ever called > > SharedHashFile [1]. It's a shared memory hash table written in C. Some guy > > on Quora asked [2] whether there's an extension library for Python coming > > out. I would like to do one but I know little about Python. I was wondering > > if anybody in this group has experience writing extension libraries for > > Python?
> There are, as far as I know, a number of tools that can help you > to create extension modules from C/C++ libraries (i.e. Python bin- > dings for the library). One that I have used successfully with a > largish C++ library of mine is shortly described here > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/intro > and the documentation and download are at > http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/sip4/ > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/download > Since I haven't used any of the alternatives I can't comment on > how good they are. A list of them can be found here > https://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratingPythonWithOtherLanguages Thats an old looking list -- pyrex is on, boost is not Worst of all the basic builting extending/embedding seems to be not mentioned! Heres a list I posted recently https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-June/650250.html If it looks ok, maybe it should go up on that wiki -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
