On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 6/18/2012 9:14 AM, Armin Rigo wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We (=fijal and myself) finally released the beta-0.1 version of CFFI. >> >> http://cffi.readthedocs.org/ >> >> It is a(nother) simple Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C >> code. I talked about it with a few python core people during the >> PyCon sprint; now it's done, with a pure Python part and a compact >> (but still 3000 lines) piece of C code. The goal is for it to be >> simple yet as complete as possible; it can be used in places where >> ctypes (say) is not applicable or only with platform-specific >> difficulties, e.g. to rewrite a "_curses" module in pure Python, or >> access the X libraries, etc. >> >> Of course I'm not going to suggest that it should be part of the >> standard library right now, but I do hope that over time, should it >> prove useful and used, I could come back and make such a suggestion. >> > > Make cffi less buggy (check the tracker for new test cases ;-), faster > (closer to swig type wrappers), and easier to use than ctypes, and I am > sure there will be interest. > > I would say it's already fulfilling those three, but I suppose you should try for yourself. Cheers, fijal
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