On Feb 5, 2008 11:23 AM, David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gael Varoquaux wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:15:29AM +0100, Sebastian Haase wrote: > > > >> Can ctypes do this ? > >> > > > > No. Ctypes is only a way of loading C (and not C++) libraries in Python. > > That makes it very simple, but not very powerful. > > > I would not call ctypes not very powerful :) For sure you cannot do the > same way as swig does, but you could imagine some automatic scheme to > solve Sebastian's problem. > > Typically, having a C wrapper automatically generated from the C++ > headers, you could use the ctypes code generator, and you have something > almost automatic (with a bit some boilerplate code in python, maybe). > > cheers,
Also feel free to extend this wiki: http://wiki.cython.org/WrappingCorCpp I use Cython, mostly for the same reasons Gael is using ctypes - it's trivial. Ondrej _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
