How to call C functions from python?

Question

I have a scenario where GUI (Developed in VB) is sending commands to the target system application developed in C language (Xilinx).

User on a PC sends the commands to target using GUI.

But now I need to remove the GUI and want to send commands (call C functions in target system application) using Python.

I found some useful info from ctypes but don't know the exact procedure so getting budded up frequently.

Question :

Can anyone tell me the exact procedure to develop a python script for this. I know fair amount of python scripting.

possible duplicate of Python C interoperability

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

2010-07-09 07:04:30 +00:00
Commented Jul 9, 2010 at 7:04 — Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Commented Jul 9, 2010 at 7:04

Sanjay · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-09 07:03:09Z

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Invoke a SWIG wrapper to make C functions look like Python functions. Take a look at this example.

answered Jul 9, 2010 at 7:03

Sanjay

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Nakul Over a year ago

Thanks for replying Sanjay, Well using SWIG I may need to edit the C source files which is not favourable in my case, I need some way in python to just access the C source code, some way of interfacing with C Source code

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