I wish to wrap an existing C (pure C that is. No C++) library into Python so that I can call it from Python scripts. Which approach among the various available (C Api, SWIG etc.) would be the most suitable?
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I wish to wrap an existing C (pure C that is. No C++) library into Python so that I can call it from Python scripts. Which approach among the various available (C Api, SWIG etc.) would be the most suitable?
go with Ctypes, it is part of standard distribution and works very well.
basically you can wrap C structures and types in python classes, as well as functions. Some types and functionality is already provided by library.
ctypes
couple caveats though: passing triple pointers to C routines is not obvious (if you have to), and I could not get it to work with static libraries on Linux, DLL and shared objects are fine.