Easiest way to include C libraries

[Peter Hansen]

Thomas Heller wrote:
> 
> Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
> 
> > Marc wrote:
> > >
> > > Basically I have to include a bunch of header files (.h for C) or .dll
> > > files (for Tcl) and be able to access them from Python code. These
> > > files are quite large, so any manual intervention will be time
> > > consuming. The new release of Python mentioned some new ways of
> > > extending it, but I'm not sure how many people have used these new
> > > functions or what problems they might have.
> >
> >
> > Look into "calldll" or the newer potential replacement ... uh.. dang!
> > What was the name of that thing?  Why didn't I bookmark it. :-(
> >
> > (No doubt some kind soul will post the name and save us the trouble
> > of searching futilely for it... so far Google hasn't helped me.)
> 
> ctypes.
> 
> http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes.html

Thank you thank you thank you. :-) Bookmarked at last!

(We're still using calldll, but from what I've seen it will be a nice
move to switch to ctypes.)

-Peter