Building a ctypes-"based" C library with distutils
- by Robie Basak
Following this recommendation, I have written a native C extension library to optimise part of a Python module via ctypes. I chose ctypes over writing a CPython-native library because it was quicker and easier (just a few functions with all tight loops inside).
I've now hit a snag. If I want my work to be easily installable using distutils using…