C Extension

DirectPython is an open source C extension to the Python programming language which provides basic access to DirectX (9.0c) API, including Direct3D, DirectSound, DirectShow and DirectInput. DirectPython uses DirectX almost directly, usually just interpreting Python objects to a form that DirectX... Platforms: Windows, Python,

The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW) is a cross-platform open-source C/C++ extension loading library. GLEW provides efficient run-time mechanisms for determining which OpenGL extensions are supported on the target platform. OpenGL core and extension functionality is exposed in a single... Platforms: *nix

Designed to aid in the conversion of Python modules to C extension modules while keeping the same interface into the module. This will make it easier to convert existing Python code into C code to give it a speed boost without changing to existing code Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

AmFast is a C extension to encode/decode Python objects with AMF3. AMF3 is a binary serialization protocol used by Actionscript3. AmFast can be used to communicate with Flash, Flex, and any other system that supports AMF3. Requirements: ?*A* Python Platforms: *nix

prctl is a C extension for access to the prctl(2) system call. #md5=f6c75c4eb0e4553a04546a74f6e0d409 Platforms: *nix

python-geohash works in pure python or with C extension. If you want to use this in pure python, just copy geohash.py to your script directory and it will work fine. If you want to enable C extension, build it in a normal way. You can also use the C geohasing routine in your C code, see... Platforms: *nix

xhelix: python C extension implementing Helix encryption and authentication.Based on the article named "Helix: Fast Encryption and Authentication" by Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier, published in the Nov 2003 issue of Dr Dobbs Journal. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

C Extension for faster UUID generation using libuuid. Downloads ??a* a*? A Python C extension for faster generation of UUID objects. It supports libuuid-based generation of version 1 and 4 UUIDs. The library is fully compatible with the standard uuid module, while also providing specialized,... Platforms: *nix

Chilkat MIME C Library  allows you to create an manipulate MIME and S/MIME messages. Features: - Navigate the MIME message tree structure via the NumParts property and GetPart(index) method. - Retrieve header field names and values. - Add header fields to a MIME message. - Add a detached... Platforms: Windows, C/C++,

tkscript is a JIT-accelerated C-like scripting language with bindings for OpenGL, SDL, SDL_net, libpng, and zlib. A plugin SDK can be used to dynamically extend the script engine with custom C functions and C++ classes. It can be used to create portable, 3D, OpenGL-accelerated multimedia... Platforms: *nix

The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW) is a cross-platform open-source C/C++ extension loading library. GLEW provides efficient run-time mechanisms for determining which OpenGL extensions are supported on the target platform. OpenGL core and extension functionality is exposed in a single... Platforms: Mac

Psyco project is a Python extension module which can massively speed up the execution of any Python code. What you can do with it In short: run your existing Python software much faster, with no change in your source. Think of Psyco as a kind of just-in-time (JIT) compiler, a little bit... Platforms: *nix

WinGTK is a developer's package which installs GTK+ 1.3 libraries for Win32. It also has wGLADE - a Glade implementation for Windows. Other packages include LibGlade, GtkExtra, GWF, DevEx (Dev-C++ extension) etc. Platforms: *nix

Bartlby is a network and system monitor, completely written in C, to provide a scalable framework with the ability to monitor networks of various sizes. It consists of a core daemon, several plugins, and a Web GUI (PHP extension). The core daemon checks (over active/passive TCP) services/hosts... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, C/C++, BSD Solaris

stsci_python is a library of Python routines and C extensions that has been developed to provide a general astronomical data analysis infrastructure. It includes the following: * PyRAF, an environment for running IRAF tasks without using the IRAF CL * MultiDrizzle, a task for combining... Platforms: Mac

python-lzf are Python bindings for liblzf. This package is just a straight translation of the C api of liblzf to python. It has two functions: compress() and decompress(). compress() accepts a string to compress and an optional maximum length for the output. If it cannot compress the string... Platforms: *nix

CDDB.py provides an easy way for Python programs to fetch track and disc information on audio CDs. It includes a C extension module to fetch track lengths under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Win32, which is easily ported to other operating systems. The dynamic duo of CDDB.py... Platforms: *nix

PySamba is a full wrapper based in the work of Tim Potter. PySamba is built as a Python C extension and a Python module that hides the complexity of the lower layer (smb). At now, PySamba provides a fully functional samba wrapper Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

MacFSEvents is a Python library that provides thread-safe directory observation primitives using callbacks. It wraps the Mac OS X FSEvents API in a C-extension. Platforms: Mac

qimage2ndarray is a small Python module for quickly converting between QImages and numpy.ndarrays (in both directions). These are very common tasks when programming e.g. scientific visualizations in Python using PyQt4 as the GUI library. Here are some key features of "qimage2ndarray": ?*A*... Platforms: *nix