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joezydeco on July 29, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Other Android Languages

Does python runtime have a native interface like JNI?

Android was quickly leveraging a lot of C and C++ code to get the system up and running. Using Java's JNI may have helped bootstrap that process faster.

_zhqs on July 29, 2010 [–]

Yes, you can interface with C/C++. http://www.swig.org/

Not only that, you can also extend Python with C/C++ - http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/ext/intro.html

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