[Python-Dev] Language Summit notes

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 14:22:31 CEST 2014


On 11 April 2014 10:36, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
> This would be superficial, but change the perception of CFFI to be "a
> preprocessor that produces C extension modules".

Thanks, that clarification helps a lot. Does this mean that "API-mode"
CFFI is competing with things like swig (which is not used much these
days, as far as I know) and Cython (which is used a lot in the numeric
community)? ("ABI-mode" CFFI is obviously directly competing with
ctypes).

Paul


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