Make externed enum "public" for Python?

Question

I'm wrapping a library that makes massive use of enumerations and therefore contains many constant identifiers. Is there a way to make them available to Cython (declare them as extern) and at the same time make them available to Python?

I search for something like this

cdef extern from *:
    public enum:
        spam
        foo
        ham

which should replace

cdef extern from *:
    enum:
        cspam "spam"
        cfoo "foo"
        cham "ham"

spam = cspam
foo = cfoo
ham = cham

Note: I know about the option to move the extern-declarations to a .pxd file to avoid naming-collision.

Thanks, Niklas

Answer 1

I have used ctypesgen.py with some success for exporting types and enumerations. This would likely be adequate for both python and cython.