"P Boy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Has anyone yet written a program to grab C struct declaration from the >> .h >> to produce code like >> >> # Overlay configuration >> class OverlayStoreConfig(ctypes.Structure): >> _fields_ = [('FormatVersion', ctypes.c_ulong), >> ('VolumeSize', ctypes.c_longlong), etc > > http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/codegen.html says it can > be done. However, it requires MSVC 7.1 and I have not yet install it > since I already have MSVC (6,7,8) on my PC.
Or vc6. Neither of which most people have, especially those not using Swig because they don't do C. Ok, we need program entirely in Python. Possible exercise for someone. > My header file is relatively small. The manual translation exercise > also allowed me to understand more details about ctypes. Sure, the first time I would do such also. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
