Is it possible to write a DLL using python

[Robin Becker]

Paul Miller wrote:
> AMD <amdescombes at qualicontrol.com> wrote in message news:<cft24m$njb$1 at news-reader2.wanadoo.fr>...
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>>I need to write a Win32 DLL and I would like to use Python instead of 
>>VB, C++ or Delphi. Is this possible?
> 
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> No.  It is possible to interface to and from Python via other
> languages, but since Python does not create native code, you cannot
> create a DLL with it.

This is not strictly true. At work I have made DLLs which encapsulate 
the base python code and then link themselves to a specialized version 
of Python (to avoid clashes with any other python). At the extreme we 
made a Darwin shared library which encapsulated our application code and 
the whole of python. I made use(misuse probably) of the freeze tool to 
accomplish this latter. The result was a single binary .so with a simple 
interface that used python internally.

Python doesn't make this easy (the startup is fairly complex), but it is 
possible.
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Robin Becker