[SciPy-user] Wrapping C libraries for Numeric integration

[Robert Cimrman]

Bryan Cole wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> What's the best approach for wrapping C libraries where the
> inputs/outputs are C arrays (which I want to pass to/from Numeric
> arrays)? 
> 
> I'm a regular SWIG user, but I don't have any typemaps to handle
> C-array-to-Numeric conversion and I can't see any distributed with SWIG.
> What approach is used by SciPy? (I know scipy is mostly fortran routines
> but surely you have a few C ones?).
> 
> Can anyone point me to existing typemaps for this purpose, to save me
> writing my own.

You can have a look at the umfpack wrapper file in 
scipy/Lib/sandbox/umfpack/umfpack.i.

Hope that helps,
r.