[Tutor] Re: How-to for writing modules

[Danny Yoo]

> >>I'm trying to find some good documentation for writing modules.  I've
> >>been looking at the C/API docs but I'd like to find a step-by-step guide
> >
> >
> I'm going to be working on an existing module that is written in C.  So
> any tutorials or guides would help a lot.


Hi Rob,


Hmmm, then the "Extending and Embedding" tutorial on Python.org is
probably what you're looking for:

    http://docs.python.org/ext/ext.html

This tutorial explains how to write C/C++ code that interacts with Python.


You may also want to look at the Pyrex system:

    http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/

which allows for fairly easy access to C libraries from Python.


One alternative to Pyrex is SWIG:

    http://www.swig.org/
    http://www.swig.org/tutorial.html


Hope this helps!