[Python-Dev] Ctypes and the stdlib (was Re: LZMA compression support in 3.3)

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>
>> (Just like Python's own .h files --
>> e.g. the extensive renaming of the Unicode APIs depending on
>> narrow/wide build) How does Cython deal with these?
>
> Pyrex/Cython deal with it by generating C code that includes
> the relevant headers, so the C compiler expands all the
> macros, interprets the struct declarations, etc. All you
> need to do when writing the .pyx file is follow the same
> API that you would if you were writing C code to use the
> library.

Interesting. Then how does Pyrex/Cython typecheck your code at compile time?

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)