Why would you ever need this
from pointers import _
text: str = "hello world"
ptr = _&text # creates a new pointer object
ptr <<= "world hello"
print(text) # world hellofrom pointers import c_malloc, c_free, strcpy, printf
ptr = c_malloc(3)
strcpy(ptr, "hi")
printf("%s\n", ptr) # hi
c_free(ptr)from pointers import malloc, free
my_str = malloc(103)
my_str <<= "hi"
second_str = my_str[51]
second_str <<= "bye"
print(*my_str, *second_str) # hi bye
free(my_str)- Fully type safe
- Pythonic pointer API
- Bindings for the entire C standard library and CPython ABI
- Segfaults
The main purpose of pointers.py is to simply break the rules of Python, but has some other use cases:
- Can help C/C++ developers get adjusted to Python
- Provides a nice learning environment for programmers learning how pointers work
- Makes it very easy to manipulate memory in Python
- Why not?
python3 -m pip install -U pointers.py
py -3 -m pip install -U pointers.py