diff --git a/bindings/ctypes/Makefile b/bindings/ctypes/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ec753198
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bindings/ctypes/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+all:
+	valabind --ctypes --module sdb -l sdb ../vala/sdb.vapi
+
+pub publish:
+	LC_CTYPE=C python setup.py sdist upload
diff --git a/bindings/python/sdb.py b/bindings/ctypes/sdb.py
similarity index 100%
rename from bindings/python/sdb.py
rename to bindings/ctypes/sdb.py
diff --git a/bindings/python/sdb3.py b/bindings/ctypes/sdb3.py
similarity index 100%
rename from bindings/python/sdb3.py
rename to bindings/ctypes/sdb3.py
diff --git a/bindings/ctypes/test.py b/bindings/ctypes/test.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..814c1038
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bindings/ctypes/test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+from sdb import *
+
+db = Sdb(None, "test.sdb", False)
+db.set("foo", "World",0)
+print("Hello " + db.get("foo", None))
+db.query(b"foo=Patata")
+#print("--> "+db.querys(None, 0, ("foo").decode("utf-8"), 0, None))
+#print("--> "+db.querys(None, 0, "foo"))
+db.sync()
diff --git a/bindings/python/Makefile b/bindings/python/Makefile
index ec753198..db540371 100644
--- a/bindings/python/Makefile
+++ b/bindings/python/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 all:
-	valabind --ctypes --module sdb -l sdb ../vala/sdb.vapi
+	python setup.py build_ext -j 8 -i -I../../src
 
-pub publish:
-	LC_CTYPE=C python setup.py sdist upload
+clean:
+	rm -rf *.out *.bin *.exe *.o *.a *.so test build
diff --git a/bindings/python/pysdb.c b/bindings/python/pysdb.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0241f714
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bindings/python/pysdb.c
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#include <Python.h>
+#include <sdb.h>
+
+PyObject * hello(PyObject * self) {
+	Sdb *db = sdb_new0();
+	sdb_set (db, "foo", "bar", 0);
+	sdb_free (db);
+	return PyUnicode_FromFormat("Hello C extension!");
+}
+
+PyObject * open(PyObject * self, PyObject *args) {
+	const char * command = NULL;
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s", &command)) {
+		return NULL;
+	}
+eprintf ("OPEN (%s)\n", command);
+	////PyObject *item = PyObject_SetItem(self, file_name);
+	PyObject *res = PyUnicode_FromString (command);
+	Sdb *db = sdb_new0();
+	sdb_set (db, "foo", "bar", 0);
+	return res; // PyUnicode_FromFormat("Hello C extension!");
+}
+
+char hellofunc_docs[] = "Hello world description.";
+
+PyMethodDef sdb_funcs[] = {
+	{	"hello",
+		(PyCFunction)hello,
+		METH_NOARGS,
+		hellofunc_docs},
+	{	"open",
+		(PyCFunction)open,
+		METH_VARARGS,
+		hellofunc_docs},
+	{	NULL}
+};
+
+static const char sdbmod_docs[] = "This is the native sdb module for Python";
+
+PyModuleDef sdb_mod = {
+	PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT,
+	"sdb",
+	sdbmod_docs,
+	-1,
+	sdb_funcs,
+	NULL,
+	NULL,
+	NULL,
+	NULL
+};
+
+PyMODINIT_FUNC PyInit_sdb(void) {
+	return PyModule_Create(&sdb_mod);
+}
diff --git a/bindings/python/setup.py b/bindings/python/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0784cafc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bindings/python/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+from distutils.core import setup, Extension
+
+setup(
+	name = "sdb",
+	version = "1.8.8",
+	ext_modules = [Extension("sdb",
+		 ["pysdb.c",
+"../../src/cdb_make.c",
+"../../src/dict.c",
+"../../src/match.c",
+"../../src/json.c",
+"../../src/diff.c",
+"../../src/buffer.c",
+"../../src/ls.c",
+"../../src/util.c",
+"../../src/array.c",
+"../../src/cdb.c",
+"../../src/journal.c",
+"../../src/ht_uu.c",
+"../../src/set.c",
+"../../src/sdb.c",
+"../../src/ht_pu.c",
+"../../src/sdbht.c",
+#"../../src/json/api.c",
+#"../../src/json/rangstr.c",
+#"../../src/json/main.c",
+#"../../src/json/js0n.c",
+#"../../src/json/path.c",
+#"../../src/json/test.c",
+#"../../src/json/indent.c",
+"../../src/ht_up.c",
+"../../src/main.c",
+"../../src/query.c",
+"../../src/base64.c",
+"../../src/text.c",
+"../../src/ht_pp.c",
+"../../src/num.c",
+"../../src/lock.c",
+"../../src/disk.c",
+"../../src/fmt.c",
+"../../src/ns.c",
+
+],
+		 include_dirs = ["../../src"]
+)]
+		 #extra_compile_args = ["-L../../src", "../../src/libsdb.a"])]
+     );
diff --git a/bindings/python/test.py b/bindings/python/test.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index b3c34f52..539f878c
--- a/bindings/python/test.py
+++ b/bindings/python/test.py
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 
-from sdb import *
+import sdb
 
-db = Sdb(None, "test.sdb", False)
-db.set("foo", "World",0)
-print("Hello "+db.get("foo", None))
-db.query(b"foo=Patata")
-#print("--> "+db.querys(None, 0, ("foo").decode("utf-8"), 0, None))
-#print("--> "+db.querys(None, 0, "foo"))
-db.sync()
+db = sdb.open("test.sdb")
+print(db)
+
+#db.set("hello", "world")
+#s = db.get("hello")
+#print(s)
+#db.close()
+
+print(sdb.hello());
+# help(sdb);
diff --git a/test/bench/Makefile b/test/bench/Makefile
index 7c38b3c6..94900f6d 100644
--- a/test/bench/Makefile
+++ b/test/bench/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 include ../sdb-test.mk
 
 TESTS=array new sync set reset stack
+CFLAGS+=-I../../src
+LDFLAGS+=../../src/libsdb.a
 BINS=$(addprefix bench-,${TESTS})
 OBJS=$(addsuffix .o,${BINS})
 
diff --git a/test/bench/bench-array.c b/test/bench/bench-array.c
index 9d891c0d..6587c9c7 100644
--- a/test/bench/bench-array.c
+++ b/test/bench/bench-array.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ void arradd (int count) {
 	int i;
 	Sdb *db = sdb_new (NULL, NULL, 0);
 	r_prof_start (&p);
-	for (i=0; i<count; i++) {
+	for (i=0; i < count; i++) {
 		sprintf (rkey, "%d", i);
 		sdb_array_set (db, "foo", -1, rkey, 0);
 	}