[Cython] new FFI library for Python

Dan Stromberg drsalists at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 20:58:50 CEST 2012


Is it related to Common Lisp's CFFI?  If not, it might be confusing to
have two things with the same name, similar purposes, but not really
the same thing.
http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the PyPy folks have come up with a new FFI library (called cffi) for
> CPython (and eventually PyPy, obviously).
>
> http://cffi.readthedocs.org/
>
> It borrows from LuaJIT's FFI in that it parses C declarations at runtime.
> It then builds a C extension to access the external code, i.e. it requires
> a C compiler at runtime (when running in CPython).
>
> Just thought this might be interesting.
>
> Stefan
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