Improved struct module

Randall Hopper aa8vb at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 14 07:37:42 EDT 1999


Fredrik Lundh:
 |Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
 |
 |> I think it defines more than 20 C structs, all of which I can define in
 |> Python now and still interact nicely with the Python MQI extension
 |> > module written in C.
 |> 
 |> Haven't heard of this, but don't people use SWIG anymore <0.7 wink>?
 |
 |real programmers don't ;-)

Hehehe.  Very funny :-) 

SWIGing C interfaces IMO beats writing your own per-function/-type Py_*
routines by a mile, in time and maintainability.  It's not perfect, but
it's a big step up.

Randall




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