[Python-Dev] CFFI released

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/18/2012 9:14 AM, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We (=fijal and myself) finally released the beta-0.1 version of CFFI.
>
> http://cffi.readthedocs.org/
>
> It is a(nother) simple Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C
> code.  I talked about it with a few python core people during the
> PyCon sprint; now it's done, with a pure Python part and a compact
> (but still 3000 lines) piece of C code.  The goal is for it to be
> simple yet as complete as possible; it can be used in places where
> ctypes (say) is not applicable or only with platform-specific
> difficulties, e.g. to rewrite a "_curses" module in pure Python, or
> access the X libraries, etc.
>
> Of course I'm not going to suggest that it should be part of the
> standard library right now, but I do hope that over time, should it
> prove useful and used, I could come back and make such a suggestion.

Make cffi less buggy (check the tracker for new test cases ;-), faster 
(closer to swig type wrappers), and easier to use than ctypes, and I am 
sure there will be interest.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy