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author | Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> | 2015-05-10 08:10:12 -0700 |
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committer | Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> | 2015-05-10 08:10:12 -0700 |
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Mention cffi use in the README
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@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ Anything that needs C code to be parsed. The following are some uses for * Automatic unit-test discovery * Adding specialized extensions to the C language +One of the most popular uses of **pycparser** is in the `cffi +<https://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_ library, which uses it to parse the +declarations of C functions and types in order to auto-generate FFIs. **pycparser** is unique in the sense that it's written in pure Python - a very high level language that's easy to experiment with and tweak. To people familiar with Lex and Yacc, **pycparser**'s code will be simple to understand. |