Wrapping C with Python

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Anish Chapagain wrote:
> Hi!!
> I tried wrapping a simple C code suing SWIG to Python, but am having
> problem,

I am not too familiar with SWIG, (I have looked at it), but you may want 
to try ctypes in the standard module library.  It's very easy to use.  I 
use it on Windows with gcc but I believe it works fine on Linux too. 
Basically you just compile your C code as a regular C code dll.  ctypes 
then allows you to access the functions in the dll very easily.  I was 
concerned that performance might be an issue but that has turned out not 
to be true.  I'm writing a chess program and the C dll handles the move 
generation so it is getting called a lot. So far it runs at about 
200,000 calls per second.

Patrick