Newbie: SWIG or SIP?

[Peter Hansen]

Larry Bates wrote:
> You can call the .DLL file by using a solution
> I wrote (and donated) some time ago.  It is located here:
> 
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/146847
> 
> You will need calldll.pyd available here:
> 
> http://www.nightmare.com/software.html

While calldll works for this (and I greatly appreciated having
it in the past), I'm pretty sure that for pretty much all
purposes "ctypes" is the preferred approach at this point.
If nothing else, it is actively maintained, while calldll is not.
I'm pretty sure ctypes is also easier to use.

-Peter