Cairo with python Ctypes

Mon 09 January 2012
By stu

Uploaded some experiments with python and ctypes to here:

https://gitorious.org/pycairo-ctypes/pycairo-ctypes

This is a really rough proof of concept that the pycairo API can be implemented with ctypes + metclasses.

So far only ImageSurface is supported on the SVG backend, along with Contexts.   The nice thing about this is that you can use a pycairo like API on pypy, where things should be faster (in theory).

There's a test that can be run to show the outputs the same for pycairo and cairo ctypes.