This repository is now archived. Please use the upstream version of CFFI. CFFI 2.0 or newer supports the free-threaded build.
Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
Please see the Documentation or uncompiled in the doc/ subdirectory.
Source code is publicly available on GitHub.
After git clone or wget && tar, we will get a directory called cffi or cffi-x.x.x. we call it repo-directory. To run tests under CPython, run the following in the repo-directory:
pip install pytest
pip install -e . # editable install of CFFI for local development
pytest src/c/ testing/