Re: [Cython] new FFI library for Python

2012-06-18 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel, 18.06.2012 16:12: > the PyPy folks have come up with a new FFI library (called cffi) for > CPython (and eventually PyPy, obviously). > > http://cffi.readthedocs.org/ > > It borrows from LuaJIT's FFI in that it parses C declarations at runtime. > It then builds a C extension to acce

Re: [Cython] new FFI library for Python

2012-06-18 Thread Stefan Behnel
Philip Herron, 18.06.2012 17:26: > On 18 June 2012 15:12, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> the PyPy folks have come up with a new FFI library (called cffi) for >> CPython (and eventually PyPy, obviously). >> >> http://cffi.readthedocs.org/ >> >> It borrows from LuaJIT's FFI in that it parses C declarations

Re: [Cython] new FFI library for Python

2012-06-18 Thread Philip Herron
On 18 June 2012 15:12, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Hi, > > the PyPy folks have come up with a new FFI library (called cffi) for > CPython (and eventually PyPy, obviously). > > http://cffi.readthedocs.org/ > > It borrows from LuaJIT's FFI in that it parses C declarations at runtime. > It then builds a C

[Cython] new FFI library for Python

2012-06-18 Thread Stefan Behnel
Hi, the PyPy folks have come up with a new FFI library (called cffi) for CPython (and eventually PyPy, obviously). http://cffi.readthedocs.org/ It borrows from LuaJIT's FFI in that it parses C declarations at runtime. It then builds a C extension to access the external code, i.e. it requires a C