Help needed to create a Python extension library for an existing shared memory hash table library

[Rustom Mody]

On Sunday, March 23, 2014 6:37:11 PM UTC+5:30, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:
> Simon Hardy-Francis  wrote:
> > Hi Python fans, I just released my first open source project ever called
> > SharedHashFile [1]. It's a shared memory hash table written in C. Some guy
> > on Quora asked [2] whether there's an extension library for Python coming
> > out. I would like to do one but I know little about Python. I was wondering
> > if anybody in this group has experience writing extension libraries for
> > Python?

> There are, as far as I know, a number of tools that can help you
> to create extension modules from C/C++ libraries (i.e. Python bin-
> dings for the library). One that I have used successfully with a
> largish C++ library of mine is shortly described here

> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/intro

> and the documentation and download are at

> http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/sip4/
> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/download

> Since I haven't used any of the alternatives I can't comment on
> how good they are. A list of them can be found here

> https://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratingPythonWithOtherLanguages

Thats an old looking list -- pyrex is on, boost is not
Worst of all the basic builting extending/embedding seems to be
not mentioned!

Heres a list I posted recently
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-June/650250.html

If it looks ok, maybe it should go up on that wiki