Fun with Python and C++
- Speaker
- Jordi Montes
- Date
- Type
- Talk
- Language
- English
- Length
- 30 minutes
About this talk
ctypes is a foreign function library for Python. It provides C compatible data types, and allows calling functions from shared libraries. In this talk we will discuss how ctypes can be used to wrap C and C++ libraries in pure Python and when, if ever, is a good idea to do that.