One of my upcoming tasks at work is converting Pandana to support both Python 2 and 3. The tricky bit is that Pandana has a C extension written in plain C using the Python 2 C-API, which is not compatible with Python 3.

It seems like the best way to have a C extension that supports both Python 2 and 3 is to not write the extension in C. These days there are a number of alternatives that allow you to write interfaces in Python or something like Python (Cython). I decided to make a sample project with some C functions to wrap so that I could try out CFFI, Cython, and the standard library ctypes module.

You can find the project with examples of all three and a longer writeup at https://github.com/jiffyclub/cext23. Pull requests are welcome on the repo with further examples!