wrapping C functions in python

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Paul Anton Letnes schrieb:
> Brian and Diez:
> 
> First of all, thanks for the advice.
> 
> Brian:
> 
> I have installed NumPy and SciPy, but I can't seem to find a wavelet 
> transform there.
> 
> The main point of this was more to learn C wrapping than to actually get 
> a calculation done. I will probably be starting a PhD soon, doing really 
> heavy computations. If I want to manipulate data (input / results), 
> python is very nice, especially with gnuplot-py. However, heavy 
> calculations should probably be done in C(++), especially as some code 
> for this already exists.
> 
> I will look into SWIG.
> 
> 
> Diez:
> 
> I will look into it. Do you know a good tutorial for this? I found the 
> "standard" tutorial on C extensions, 
> http://www.python.org/doc/ext/intro.html , but as I mentioned, it seems 
> to be a bit complicated to wrap heavy data structures like arrays.

ctypes is documented as part of the python 2.5 standard lib 
documentation. And google helps as always.

diez