April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
646 pages
16h 48m
English
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The ctypes module
The ctypes module is the most popular module to call functions from dynamic or shared libraries without the need to write custom C extensions. The reason for that is obvious. It is part of the standard library, so it is always available and does not require any external dependencies. It is a Foreign Function Interface (FFI) library and provides APIs for creating C-compatible datatypes.
In the next section, we will take a look at loading libraries.