PyAutoC
Dev tools
c to python bindings
SHOW HN2012
7points
6comments
#1,458of 1,677 in 2012
Top 87%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Design: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
Objections
Uses macros with naked primitive type names, which feels unnatural for C
From 1 comment
For my money, something that looks like a C API with very obviously impossible things going on (passing "naked" names of primitive types like int and float) makes my personal…
unwind on HN
Seems to need a compile step, unlike ctypes runtime FFI
From 1 comment
What do you mean "runtime" ? You have to compile some C code with macros to wrap a unique type signature for each function you want to wrap, so this seems to require a…
Erwin on HN
Cython/Pyrex already do this more cleanly
From 1 comment
What do you mean "runtime" ? You have to compile some C code with macros to wrap a unique type signature for each function you want to wrap, so this seems to require a…
Erwin on HN
Questions
What is meant by runtime, given a compile step is needed
From 1 comment
What do you mean "runtime" ? You have to compile some C code with macros to wrap a unique type signature for each function you want to wrap, so this seems to require a…
Erwin on HN
Alternatives named
Pyrex/Cython
From 1 comment
What do you mean "runtime" ? You have to compile some C code with macros to wrap a unique type signature for each function you want to wrap, so this seems to require a…
Erwin on HN
ctypes
From 1 comment
What do you mean "runtime" ? You have to compile some C code with macros to wrap a unique type signature for each function you want to wrap, so this seems to require a…
Erwin on HN
boost.python
From 1 comment
Reminds me of boost.python, which is also macro-heavy.
rollypolly on HN