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title: "cffi-alpm: A New Hope"
date: 2016-11-17
tags: ['python', 'libalpm']
Pyalpm has some annoyances to it, like leaking a lot of memory, and being a CPython module. It has many times been suggested that it should be re-written using CFFI or something similar though, and tonight I’ve been pretending that I don’t have anything better to do, so I started playing with CFFI and libalpm a bit.
The result of my experimentations is available at `cffi-alpm <https://github.com/kyrias/cffi-alpm>`_, though it’s not particularly useful yet. Right now it has a class that wraps `alpm_list_t` and implements the Python `iterator protocol <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0234/>`_ for it, and have written a small example that searches the local DB. It’s not really much at all, but I do feel like I have a better feel of both CFFI and libalpm now, and might actually end up writing a complete pyalpm replacement.
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