https://github.com/python-cffi/cffi

A Foreign Function Interface package for calling C libraries from Python.
https://github.com/python-cffi/cffi

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A Foreign Function Interface package for calling C libraries from Python.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/python-cffi/cffi
• Owner: python-cffi
• License: other
• Created: 2023-09-25T18:11:06.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2026-02-09T01:06:27.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-02-15T05:42:59.748Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Size: 49.2 MB
• Stars: 239
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 77
• Open Issues: 42
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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CFFI

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Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.

Please see the [Documentation] or uncompiled in the `doc/` subdirectory.

Download

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[Download page](https://github.com/python-cffi/cffi/releases)

Source Code

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Source code is publicly available on

[GitHub](https://github.com/python-cffi/cffi).

Contact

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[Mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/python-cffi)

Testing/development tips

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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/

[Documentation]: http://cffi.readthedocs.org/