Ebbinge, Onno wrote: > Wouldn't it be very useful if it would be possible to include C header > files so that you could easily access to the local shared libraries > (e.g., a .so or .dll)? A simple example: > > >>>>include <time.h> >>>>secs = time.time(None) >>>>tm = time.localtime(secs) >>>>print 'The time is (ANSI format): %d-%d-%d %d:%d:%d\n' % ( > > ... tm.tm_year + 1900, tm.tm_mon + 1, tm.tm_mday, tm.tm_hour, > ... tm.tm_min, tm.tm_sec) > The time is (ANSI format): 2003-7-2 13:52:31 > > Ok, the standard C time.h is totally not interesting in > Python because it has it's own time module, but able to access > other (os specific!) shared libraries is very useful! Access > to ufs/ufs/quota.h on my FreeBSD box would be very simple > this way (instead of wrapping/compiling/etc the whole thing). > > The new include statement should wrap #define's, struct's, function > declarations and such found in the header files in a module object. > This would be a _very_ general way to access shared libraries and OS > API's. I even think it would dramatically simplify the standard or > third party modules for python. > > But... is this possible? Would it have the big advantages I think > it would have? I think the closest you can get to this is by using Thomas Heller's ctypes extension: http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/ Not sure whether it works on FreeBSD. The web page says that it need libffi. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Software directly from the Source (#1, Jul 05 2003) >>> Python/Zope Products & Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2003-07-01: Released mxODBC.Zope.DA for FreeBSD 1.0.6 beta 1
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