ZeroIntensity/pointers.py

pointers.py

Bringing the hell of pointers to Python

Why would you ever need this

• Documentation
• Source
• PyPI

Examples

```py from pointers import _ text: str = "hello world" ptr = _&text # creates a new pointer object ptr <<= "world hello" print(text) # world hello ``` ```py from pointers import c_malloc, c_free, strcpy, printf ptr = c_malloc(3) strcpy(ptr, "hi") printf("%s\n", ptr) # hi c_free(ptr) ``` ```py 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) ```

Features

• Fully type safe
• Pythonic pointer API
• Bindings for the entire C standard library and CPython ABI
• Segfaults

Why does this exist?

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_?

Installation

Linux/macOS

``` python3 -m pip install -U pointers.py ```

Windows

``` py -3 -m pip install -U pointers.py ```