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CFFI
Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
Please see the Documentation or uncompiled in the doc/ subdirectory.
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Source code is publicly available on GitHub.
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Testing/development tips
After git clone or wget && tar, we will get a directory called cffi or cffi-x.x.x. we call it repo-directory. To run tests under CPython, run the following in the repo-directory:
pip install pytest
pip install -e . # editable install of CFFI for local development
pytest src/c/ testing/
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Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
We found that cffi demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 8 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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