Pycall : C API for python functions

Pycall is an open-source C API for python functions that provides an easy way to call python functions directly in C/C++.

Get Started with Pycall

In the following, we use the folder "PYCALL_HOME" to present the repo folder of pycall. For instance, if the git repo is put under "/home/liang/", then "PYCALL_HOME" represents "/home/liang/pycall".

Build it

Pycall is built as follows, and resulted static library is "PYCALL_HOME/src/libpycall.a".

$ cd PYCALL_HOME
$ make

The resulted static library is "PYCALL_HOME/src/libpycall.a"

Optionally, you can run the tests by running

$ make test

Currently, we have not implemented enough tests for the project yet.

Try example

You can try the example to see how Pycall is used.

$ cd PYCALL_HOME/example
$ make
$ make run

As a result, logs are shown. You can read the logs with the source code to find out how Pycall works.

Using Pycall

Currently, we only support one powerful API

PyObject * pycall(const char * py_module, const char * py_func,
                  const char * format, ...);

where "py_module" and "py_func" are the name of module and function accordingly, "format" states the type of the following arguments, and "..." presents a list of variable length arguments for python function "py_func".

Contributing

Pycall is currently under active development. You can help us in multiple ways, such as bug report, feature requirement, test case contribution, or comment.

Licenses

Pycall is released under the MIT license.