Using C++ and ctypes together: a vast conspiracy? ;)

[Carl Banks]

On Jun 3, 2:13 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l... at geek-
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
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> c0e4-479a-85ed-91c26d3bf... at c36g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, Kay Schluehr
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> > On 3 Jun., 05:51, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l... at geek-
> > central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
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> >> In message <h04bjd$n9... at hoshi.visyn.net>, Sebastian Wiesner wrote:
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> >> > <Nick Craig-Wood – Mittwoch, 3. Juni 2009 00:29>
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> >> >> That said I've used C++ with ctypes loads of times, but I always wrap
> >> >> the exported stuff in extern "C" { } blocks.
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> >> > No wonder, you have never actually used C++ with C types.  An extern
> >> > "C" clause tells the compiler to generate C functions (more precisely,
> >> > functions that conform to the C ABI conventions), so effectively you're
> >> > calling into C, not into C++.
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> >> Seems like the only sane way to do it. In all other directions lies
> >> madness.
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> > Yes but creating C stubs is also hard in presence of everything that
> > is not basic C++. How would you wrap the STL?
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> What does the STL offer that Python doesn't already do more flexibly and
> more simply?

The opportunity to type several lines of ASCII line noise just to do
something really simple like iterate through a vector.


Carl Banks