Real World Instrumentation with Python

Suggested Reading

Interestingly, it seems that there are no books devoted solely to the subject of creating extensions for Python. There are, however, resources available at various websites, the foremost being Python’s primary documentation site:

http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.5/

The official Python documentation for version 2.6.5 contains several sections on the topic of extending Python using C or C++. This should be your first stop when looking for additional information.

http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.5/extending/index.htmlhttp://docs.python.org/release/2.6.5/c-api/index.html

These two sections of the online Python documentation provide a detailed discussion of extension modules and the functionality available for creating them.

http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html

This is essential reading if you want to use the ctypes library.