python on unix [getting started]

[Alex Martelli]

dsavitsk wrote:
   ...

> So perhaps the question is, how does one write a wrapper for using a
> library with python? (I see there is a xmms wrapper, but I don't have X
> installed, so I assume that that is not an option) again, on win32, it is
> simple enough to use either windll or even vb to declare non-COM functions
> and write COM
> wrappers to them.  Where would I look to do this on unix?

You have MANY options, including SWIG, raw Python/C API, etc.

Perhaps the most fascinating one is Greg Ewing's pyrex,
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ -- 
Michael JasonSmith's "Quick Guide" shows how to use pyrex
to wrap a couple of Unix libraries, too.


Alex