Extending Python with C or C++

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:
>  Nick Craig-Wood schrieb:
> > Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:
> >>  Nick Craig-Wood schrieb:
> >> > Interesting - I didn't know about h2xml and xml2py before and I've
> >> > done lots of ctypes wrapping!  Something to help with the initial
> >> > drudge work of converting the structures would be very helpful.
> >> > 
> >> > ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ctypeslib/ )
> >> > 
> >> > I gave it a quick go and it worked fine.  I had to edit the XML in one
> >> > place to make it acceptable (removing a u from a hex number).
> >> 
> >>  If you are using a recent version of gccxml, then you should use the
> >>  ctypeslib-gccxml-0.9 branch of ctypeslib instead of the trunk. (I should
> >>  really merge the gccxml-0.9 branch into the trunk;-)
> >> 
> >>  If you are already using the branch and the XML file is not accepted,
> >>  then could you please provide a short C code snippet that reproduces
> >>  the problem so that I can fix it?
> > 
> > I'm using gccxml from debian testing 0.9.0+cvs20080525-1 which I guess
> > doesn't have the code from the branch in.
> 
>  I meant the branch in the repository where ctypeslib lives in.
>  Anyway, it doesn't matter anymore since I merged that branch
>  into the ctypeslib trunk.
> 
>  Now the problem with the 'u' suffix that you mentioned should be fixed, and
>  I also made a quick change so that the sized integer types from stdint.h are generated
>  correctly. So, please update your ctypeslib installation and trey again;-)

I gave it a go and I can report success on both counts!

Well done and thank you.
-- 
Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick