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bigger pydc update:
- cleanups and refactoring
- python 2 fixes in var conversions (especially w/ respect to int vs long)
- fix to pydc.free() which didn't work at all
- fix to return python bool as actual bool
- test lib covering all conversions (manual verification, though :-/)
| author | Tassilo Philipp |
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| date | Wed, 08 Apr 2020 22:17:43 +0200 |
| parents | edbbd467f50a |
| children | baf087cf5971 |
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| 0 | 1 dyncall python bindings |
| 28 | 2 Copyright 2007-2016 Daniel Adler |
| 3 2018-2020 Tassilo Philipp | |
| 4 | |
| 5 Dec 4, 2007: initial | |
| 6 Mar 22, 2016: update to dyncall 0.9, includes breaking sig char changes | |
| 7 Apr 19, 2018: update to dyncall 1.0 | |
| 8 Apr 7, 2020: update to dyncall 1.1, Python 3 support, using the Capsule | |
| 9 API, as well as support for python unicode strings | |
| 5 | 10 |
| 0 | 11 |
| 7 | 12 BUILD/INSTALLATION |
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13 ================== |
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| 15 1) make sure dyncall is built and libraries/headers are in include paths or | |
| 16 CFLAGS points to them, etc. | |
| 17 | |
| 10 | 18 2) Build and install this extension with: |
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20 python setup.py install |
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| 28 | 22 Building a wheel package isn't supported, currently. |
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| 0 | 25 API |
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26 === |
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| 28 libhandle = load(libpath) | |
| 5 | 29 funcptr = find(libhandle, symbolname) |
| 30 call(funcptr, signature, ...) | |
| 29 | 31 free(libhandle) |
| 0 | 32 |
| 7 | 33 |
| 0 | 34 SIGNATURE FORMAT |
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35 ================ |
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| 37 is a formated string | |
| 38 | |
| 39 format: "xxxxx)y" | |
| 40 | |
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41 x is positional parameter-type charcode, y is result-type charcode |
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| 29 | 43 SIG | FROM PYTHON 2 | FROM PYTHON 3 | C/C++ | TO PYTHON 2 | TO PYTHON 3 |
| 44 ----+------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+---------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------------------------------------- | |
| 45 'v' | | | void | None (Py_None) (e.g. ret of "...)v") | None (Py_None) (e.g. ret of "...)v") | |
| 46 'B' | bool (PyBool) | bool (PyBool)# | int/bool | bool (PyBool) | bool (PyBool)@ | |
| 47 'c' | int (PyLong)%, str (single char)% | int (PyLong)%, str (single char)% | char | int (PyInt) | int (PyLong) | |
| 48 'C' | int (PyLong)%, str (single char)% | int (PyLong)%, str (single char)% | unsigned char | int (PyInt) | int (PyLong) | |
| 49 's' | int (PyInt)% | int (PyLong)% | short | int (PyInt) | int (PyLong) | |
| 50 'S' | int (PyInt)% | int (PyLong)% | unsigned short | int (PyInt) | int (PyLong) | |
| 51 'i' | int (PyInt) | int (PyLong) | int | int (PyInt) | int (PyLong) | |
| 52 'I' | int (PyInt) | int (PyLong) | unsigned int | int (PyInt) | int (PyLong) | |
| 53 'j' | int (PyInt) | int (PyLong) | long | int (PyInt) | int (PyLong) | |
| 54 'J' | int (PyInt) | int (PyLong) | unsigned long | int (PyInt) | int (PyLong) | |
| 55 'l' | int (PyInt), long (PyLong) | int (PyLongLong) | long long | long (PyLong) | int (PyLong) | |
| 56 'L' | int (PyInt), long (PyLong) | int (PyLongLong) | unsigned long long | long (PyLong) | int (PyLong) | |
| 57 'f' | float (PyFloat)$ | float (PyFloat)$ | float | float (PyFloat)^ | float (PyFloat)^ | |
| 58 'd' | float (PyFloat) | float (PyFloat) | double | float (PyFloat) | float (PyFloat) | |
| 59 'p' | str (PyUnicode/PyString), int (PyInt), long (PyLong) | str (PyUnicode), int (PyLong), (PyBytes) | void* | int,long (Py_ssize_t) | int (Py_ssize_t) | |
| 60 'Z' | str (PyUnicode/PyString) | str (PyUnicode), (PyBytes) | const char* (UTF-8 for unicode) | int (PyString) | str (PyUnicode) | |
| 0 | 61 |
| 29 | 62 # converted to 1 if True and 0 otherwise |
| 63 @ converted to False if 0 and True otherwise | |
| 64 % range checked | |
| 65 $ cast to single precision | |
| 66 ^ cast to double precision | |
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| 28 | 71 - signature suffixes used to indicate calling conventions are not supported yet! |
| 72 - callback support | |
| 5 | 73 |