Simple examples for how to call C code from Python, and vice versa.

In order to build the extensions for your system, you may need to install additional tools.

• RedHat variants

  $ sudo yum install python python-devel

• Debian variants

  $ sudo apt-get install python python-dev

• SUSE variants

  $ sudo zypper install python python-devel

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Make sure you have the prerequisites installed, and run the following:

$ python setup.py build_ext --inplace && python setup.py clean

This will produce a hello.so binary. Simply add that to your PYTHONPATH and you can try it out:

$ python
>>> import hello
>>> hello.hello()
Hello, World!
>>> hello.hello("Your Name")
Hello, Your Name!
>>>

Blogs, documentation, and other sources that helped explain how this all works.

• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Python_Programming/Extending_with_C
• http://dan.iel.fm/posts/python-c-extensions/