[Pyrex] Possible syntax for direct cimport from C header files

[Greg Ewing]

John J Lee <jjl at pobox.com>:

> This makes me think of a posssible syntax for cimport from C header files
> (which I posted about earlier).  How about only allowing exactly this
> "import *" form, perhaps only in .pxd files?
> 
> from "foo/blah.h" cimport *

I doubt whether Pyrex will ever read the .h files itself.
Rather, there will be a tool that generates a .pxd file from
a .h file (or as much of it as it can) which you then import
using a normal cimport statement.

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