Compiling a custom python library

keirr keir at mooncode.com
Wed Aug 25 12:18:54 EDT 2004


Henning Kage wrote:
> I'm writing a small Python library with some generic classes and
> interfaces, that can be used within other Python projects in our
company.
> Would it be a better solution to compile this library into a Python
DLL
> (and if so, how can it be done) or to distribute the "raw" sourcecode
of
> these classes etc.? What would be the best solution, so that other
> programmers can easily integrate this library into their own
programs?

You might find distutils will work for you,
read about it at http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/doc/

A 'dll' would work as well - but you loose cross platform
support.

Cheers,

 Keir Robinson.




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