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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 or SWIG or ctypes)
* Keep all the python-related logic in Python instead of C (unlike CPython
native C extensions)
* Be complete and work on the level of API (unlike ctypes)
.. _`luajit FFI`:
Simple example
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>>> from cffi import FFI
>>> ffi = FFI()
>>> ffi.cdef("""
... int printf(const char *format, ...);
... """)
>>> C = ffi.rawload(None) # loads the entire C namespace
>>> C.printf("hi there, %s!\n", ffi.new("char[]", "world"));
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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