pywincffi
is a wrapper around some Windows API functions using Python and the cffi library. This project was originally created to assist the Twisted project in moving away from its dependency on pywin32
. Contributions to expand on the APIs which pywincffi offers are always welcome however.
The core objectives and design principles behind this project are:
- It should be easier to to use Windows API functions both in terms of implementation and distribution.
- Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x should be supported from a single code base and not require a consumer of pywincffi to worry about how they use the library.
- Type conversion, error checking and other 'C like' code should be the responsibility of the library where possible.
- APIs provided by pywincffi should mirror their Windows counterparts as closely as possible so the MSDN documentation can be more easily used as reference.
- Documentation and error messages should be descriptive, consistent, complete and accessible. Examples should be provided for more complex use cases.
- For contributors, it should be possible to develop and test regardless of what platform the contributor is coming from.
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