On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > A vendor provided a C, C++ and Java API for a application. They dont support > python so I would like to create a library for it. My question is, how > hard/easy would it be to create something like this? Is there a simple HOWTO > or examples I can follow? Can someone shed home light on this?
The best way would be to write something in C that exposes the API to Python. Check out the docs on "Extending and Embedding Python": For Python 2.x: http://docs.python.org/extending/ For Python 3.x: http://docs.python.org/py3k/extending/ You'll need to learn Python's own API, of course, but if you're a competent C programmer, you should find it fairly straightforward. There's an alternative, too, though I haven't personally used it. The ctypes module allows you to directly call a variety of C-provided functions. http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/ctypes.html The resulting code isn't nearly as Pythonic as it could be if you write a proper wrapper, but you save the work of writing C code. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list