richardsprague/pythonc

A trivial example of how to add call a C function from Python

This example is based on a tutorial by Elliot Forbes.

The C code is in pythonc.c.

Get the whole thing to run by typing the following in the command line:

$ python setup.py install
$ python setup.py build

After it's built, you'll have a new module you can call from within Python:

>>> import myModule
>>> myModule.helloworld()
>>> myModule.fib(10)

If you want to change anything, see the comments in python.c and setup.py

Full documentation on how to extend Python with C is at docs.python.org