Bug#566905: ITP: python-ctypeslib -- code generator to convert header files into ctypes interfaces
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:58:26PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> from the first line in this website: "ctypes is an advanced ffi
> (Foreign Function Interface) package for Python 2.3 and higher. In
> Python 2.5 it is already included."
The "homepage" is kind of confusing: it's about ctypes, but below
under "Related projects" is where it discusses ctypeslib. Ctypeslib
is not ctypes, it's a tool to be used with ctypes.
ctypeslib will parse header files and output python code: something
that ctypes doesn't do. ctypeslib isn't included in anything else
(/usr/share/pyshared/numpy/ctypeslib.py) is something different. I've
searched the relevant files with apt-file, if you do know of ctypeslib
somewhere, please let me know.
> Since squeeze will be released with Python 2.5 and 2.6, and ctypes has
> been removed from Debian just days ago, can you please explain why you
> want to package this tool?
It probably makes sense now...
I'm wanting to package this to get it wider visibility, and hopefully
make it more useful to a wider audience. I've been a longtime user of
ctypes, and the main reason I haven't used ctypeslib more is that it
wasn't in Debian before.
Thanks for the concern,
- Richard
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