Python binding

[gonsolo (Andreas Wendleder)]

I try to call Swift from Python which doesn't work because of name mangling.

bla.swift compiled with swiftc -emit-library to libbla.so:

public func bla() {
print("Bla")
}

bla.py:

import ctypes
lib = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("./libbla.so")
#print(lib.$s3blaAAyyF) <- doesn't work because of the dollar sign

What is the preferred way to do this?

[Nickolas_Pohilets (Nickolas Pokhylets)]

ctypes — A foreign function library for Python

Sometimes, dlls export functions with names which aren’t valid Python identifiers, like "??2@YAPAXI@Z" . In this case you have to use getattr() to retrieve the function:

>>> getattr(cdll.msvcrt, "??2@YAPAXI@Z")`
<_FuncPtr object at 0x...>

[gonsolo (Andreas Wendleder)]

Cool, I haven't seen this. Thanks.