How to call and execute C code in Python?

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Sun May 13 11:58:32 EDT 2012


David Shi, 13.05.2012 15:25:
> Can anyone tell me how to call and exectute C code in Python?

Take a look at Cython, a Python-like language that supports native calls to
and from C/C++ code. It translates your code into very efficient C code, so
the wrapping code tends to be very fast (often faster than hand written C
code).

http://cython.org/

Here are a couple of examples:

http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/external.html

There's also the "ctypes" package in the standard library, which is usable
for simple wrapping cases that are not performance critical.

Stefan




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