What is the simplest and most productive approach for prototyping Python bindings for existing C / C ++ libraries?

Question

I want to create simple prototype Python bindings to evaluate various C / C ++ libraries.

I need to experiment with Linux, Windows and Mac.

Some examples of libs that I need bindings for include a combination of C or C ++ libraries, such as:

• http://www.chokkan.org/software/cdbpp/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbh/
• http://code.google.com/p/smhasher/wiki/MurmurHash3
• http://www.seg.rmit.edu.au/zettair/
• http://dbh.sourceforge.net/

There are several candidates such as swig, ctypes, Boost.Python, pybindgen and questions have already been posted here on this topic, although the focus is on performance. Python extension - to swig, not for swig or cython

I like getting something simple and quick rather than about performance.

What would you recommend for quickly creating bindings?

Answer 1

ctypes fits the bill pretty well for C. It's funny to easily make thin wrappers around C libraries with it.

Answer 2

Did you consider Cython ? It allows you to link static libraries and write bindings in a language that looks like python.