Quote:Original post by Uphoreum
I'm interested in writing an engine where all the rendering and other engine type things are done in C and the game(s) would be written in Python. So, I'm wondering, would this be done best by wrapping a C DLL with ctypes or by writing Python plugin, or something else?

• ctypes is probably the simplest, as it just requires minimal python wrapper code, but it is also by far the slowest to make function calls into C, and it isn't trivial to call Python from the C code.


• boost::python is the most flexible solution for C++, and is pretty efficient, although the compiler and library setup can be a bit of a pain across multiple platforms.


• SWIG lets you bind C/C++ to all sorts of languages (including Python), and generates fairly efficient wrappers, but requires pages of SWIG 'glue' to bind the C/C++ API.


• Pyrex et al. allows you to write python extension modules in a hybrid python/C dialect, and produces efficient code, but can be problematic to interact with C++.