On 5 August 2018 at 18:06, Ronald Oussoren
I’m not sure if I understand this, ctypes and cffi are used to access C APIs without writing C code including the CPython API (see for example https://github.com/abarnert/superhackyinternals/blob/master/internals.py).
The code code below should be mostly equivalent to the Cython example posted earlier:
import unittest import ctypes from ctypes import pythonapi
class PyObject(ctypes.Structure): _fields_ = ( ('ob_refcnt', ctypes.c_ssize_t), )
pythonapi.PyList_Append.argtypes = [ctypes.py_object, ctypes.py_object]
def refcount(v): return PyObject.from_address(id(v)).ob_refcnt
The quoted code is what I was referring to in: ==== ctypes & cffi likely wouldn't help as much in the case, since they don't eliminate the need to come up with custom code for parts 3 & 4, they just let you write that logic in Python rather than C. ==== Cython has more machinery for accessing the CPython C API correctly already built in to it, whereas ctypes has no type safety at all, while cffi doesn't special case CPython's C API in particular. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia