Improved struct module

[Fredrik Lundh]

Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:

> > Another reason for providing the buffer interface is to facilitate writing
> > extension modules for C APIs that make heavily use of C structs. The most
> > notorious example I know is the MQI interface of IBMs MQSeries. I think it
> > defines more than 20 C structs, all of which I can define in
> > Python now and still interact nicely with the Python MQI extension module
> > written in C.
> 
> Haven't heard of this, but don't people use SWIG anymore <0.7 wink>?

real programmers don't ;-)

    http://www.nightmare.com/~rushing/dynwin/index.html

(uses Sam's calldll and npstruct modules to access every
little corner of windows without any custom win32 inter-
faces)

(and uiTookit/win32 uses a similar approach, of course)

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