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0 pointsyellowapple6y ago0 comments

I'm curious about what ctypes' supposed inferiorities are. Last time I used it was to implement native printing in Windows (long story short: needed to print to a ZPL printer, and Qt doesn't seem to offer any ability to just send raw data to a printer, so I implemented it myself with the Winspool API), and it was a breeze (comparatively speaking, i.e. as much of a breeze as Windows API programming can be).

If ctypes can handle the Windows APIs, then I'm convinced it can handle just about anything.

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loeg6y ago· 1 in thread

ctypes allows you to trivially mistype C objects, send the wrong types and number of arguments to C functions, etc. Cffi just imports C headers and gives you more or less what TFA illustrates (without D).

yellowappleOP6y ago

> ctypes allows you to trivially mistype C objects

I mean, so does C. Pretty sure that's a "feature". ;)

But yeah, fair point; it's definitely nice when an FFI wrapper is able to actually read the header files and figure out function/type signatures.

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