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I'm not sure if it fits your needs, but we are very happy with calling c 
libs directly from python using ctypes:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html
It requires a few extra lines in Python to handle the parameter and 
return types.

import ctypes
result = ctypes.windll.Hello.hello()