I’ve done a little wrapper of GLib/GString functionality using Python ctypes. GString of GLib is an amazing and very stable work done by GLib team, the core used by GTK+ and many other libraries. The wrapper I’ve done works in Windows and Linux, but the performance results seems more interesting for Windows, however, the GString functionality is very interesting for any platform. The project is hosted here in Google project hosting.

Here is some examples of the wrapper:

>>> from GString import GString
>>> obj1 = GString("test")
>>> obj1

>>> print obj1
test
>>> obj1+obj1

>>> obj1+=obj1
>>> obj1

>>> obj1.truncate(5)

>>> obj1.insert(2, "xx")

>>> obj1.assign("test")

>>> obj1.erase(2,2)

>>> obj1.assign("12345")
>>> for i in xrange(len(obj1)):
...    print obj1[i]
...
1
2
3
4
5

I hope you enjoyed the wrapper, you can find performance comparisons in the project home site.