Calling C++ DLLs from Python

Question

I\'d like to know if it is possible to use ctypes to access C++ DLLs from Python and run functions (or class methods) from them.If not, is there another way to do this?

Answer 1

This question has been answered many times (this one is an exact duplicate!)

In summary, no you can't do it with Ctypes (yet) but there are a number of other code generators you could use to do the job. SWIG and Boost.Python are two of the most popular.

Answer 2

the boost python library makes it REALLY easy to wrap a C++ class and expose it as python module. It took me around 10 minutes the first time I tried.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/python/doc/tutorial/doc/html/index.html