Why would you ever need this
from pointers import _ text: str = "hello world" ptr = _&text # creates a new pointer object ptr <<= "world hello" print(text) # world hello
from pointers import c_malloc, c_free, strcpy, printf ptr = c_malloc(3) strcpy(ptr, "hi") printf("%s\n", ptr) # hi c_free(ptr)
from pointers import malloc, free my_str = malloc(103) my_str <<= "hi" second_str = my_str[51] second_str <<= "bye" print(*my_str, *second_str) # hi bye free(my_str)
- Fully type safe
- Pythonic pointer API
- Bindings for the entire C standard library and CPython ABI
- Segfaults
The main purpose of pointers.py is to simply break the rules of Python, but has some other use cases:
- Can help C/C++ developers get adjusted to Python
- Provides a nice learning environment for programmers learning how pointers work
- Makes it very easy to manipulate memory in Python
- Why not?
python3 -m pip install -U pointers.py
py -3 -m pip install -U pointers.py