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cffi
====
Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code. The aim of this project
is to provide a convinient and reliable way of calling C code from Python.
The interface is based on [luajit FFI](http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html) and follows a few principles:
* You want to use C code from Python code, so you should be able to do so
without needing to learn a 3rd language
(unlike [Cython](http://www.cython.org) or [SWIG](http://www.swig.org/) or ctypes)
* Keep all the python-related logic in Python instead of C (unlike
[CPython native C extensions](http://docs.python.org/extending/extending.html))
* Be complete and work on the level of API (unlike [ctypes](http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html))
Simple example
--------------
>>> from cffi import FFI
>>> ffi = FFI()
>>> ffi.cdef("""
... int printf(const char *format, ...); // copy-pasted from the man page
... """)
>>> C = ffi.dlopen(None) # loads the entire C namespace
>>> arg = ffi.new("char[]", "world") # equivalent to C code: char arg[] = "world";
>>> C.printf("hi there, %s!\n", arg); # call printf
hi there, world!
>>>
More documentation
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See [More docs](https://bitbucket.org/xxx) for examples and supported features.
Contact
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[Mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/python-cffi)
Initial motivation
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http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2012-May/009915.html
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