Alec Taylor, 07.03.2012 15:25: > I am planning to port the 2-3 heap data-structure as described by > Professor Tadao Takaoka in Theory of 2-3 Heaps published in 1999 and > available in PDF: > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tad.takaoka/2-3heaps.pdf > > The source-code used has been made available: > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/research/RG/alg/ttheap.h > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/research/RG/alg/ttheap.c > > I plan on wrapping it in a class. > > This tutorial I used to just test out calling C within Python > (http://richizo.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/calling-c-functions-inside-python/) > and it seems to work, but this might not be the recommended method. > > Any best practices for how best to wrap the 2-3 heap data-structure > from C to Python?
For data structures, where performance tends to matter, it's usually best to start with Cython right away, instead of using ctypes. http://cython.org/ Here's a tutorial for wrapping a C library with it: http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/clibraries.html Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list