From: Brett Cannon Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:24:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Note in the intro to Extending... that ctypes can be a simpler, more portable solutio... X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~519 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2348eda37bf37abb6a96a69301f4a3303d353f33;p=python Note in the intro to Extending... that ctypes can be a simpler, more portable solution than custom C code. --- diff --git a/Doc/extending/extending.rst b/Doc/extending/extending.rst index 5c99c3db27..6f7711739c 100644 --- a/Doc/extending/extending.rst +++ b/Doc/extending/extending.rst @@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ source file by including the header ``"Python.h"``. The compilation of an extension module depends on its intended use as well as on your system setup; details are given in later chapters. +Do note that if your use case is calling C library functions or system calls, +you should consider using the :mod:`ctypes` module rather than writing custom +C code. Not only does :mod:`ctypes` let you write Python code to interface +with C code, but it is more portable between implementations of Python than +writing and compiling an extension module which typically ties you to CPython. + + .. _extending-simpleexample: