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Emil D
Emil D

Reputation: 1904

Calling C++ DLLs from Python

I'd like to know if it is possible to use ctypes to access C++ DLLs from Python and run functions (or class methods) from them.If not, is there another way to do this?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 45745

Answers (2)

jkp
jkp

Reputation: 81320

This question has been answered many times (this one is an exact duplicate!)

In summary, no you can't do it with Ctypes (yet) but there are a number of other code generators you could use to do the job. SWIG and Boost.Python are two of the most popular.

Upvotes: 9

Chris H
Chris H

Reputation: 6601

the boost python library makes it REALLY easy to wrap a C++ class and expose it as python module. It took me around 10 minutes the first time I tried.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/python/doc/tutorial/doc/html/index.html

Upvotes: 1

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