[libhid-discuss] libhid and pithon-hid

[Charles Lepple]

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On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:03 AM, Alberto Garau wrote:

> Hello,
>
> currently I'm working on the port of a stack of software including  
> libhid and pithon-hid.
> I have a little doubt.
>
>  From my linux Fedora PC I can see:
>
> /usr/lib/libhid.so
>
> and then
>
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libhid/_hid.so
>
> The first one is the classical libhid installed through "yum install  
> libhid" while the second one is a python wrapper to libhid.
>
> My question is if libhid.so and _hid.so are the same thing or there  
> is a difference.

I think you answered your question in the previous paragraph.

> If there is a difference between them as I think, where can I find  
> the source code for _hid.so ?

It is generated from swig/hid.i.

More info in the swig/README file.