On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > BTW, have you looked into Cython? It's smart enough to take care of a > lot of this sort of thing for you.
I did a bit; this work is to replace our old python 2 SAML client, which used python-lasso and python-libxml2, both packages that are built as part of building the C library and thus an utter PITA to package for different versions of python (something our Infra team were extremely reluctant to do). When the latest (PITA to build) version of python-lasso started interfering with python-xmlsec (validating an invalid signature was causing segfaults), I got fed up of fighting it. I actually also maintain a C version of the same code, using the same libraries, so porting those few segments of code to Python/C seemed more expedient than rewriting in Cython. I'm not writing an API to these libraries, just a few functions. Cheers Tom -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
