Best way of extending Python com or lnk or dll?

[Darrell]

Just had an example of this in this thread "Help me use re better"
Where it was faster to stay in the regular expression engine than to loop
though it.

--Darrell

"Courageous" <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote in message >
> BTW, to the original poster: the more work your code
> can do in C once it gets there, the better. Python carries
> significant overhead in dispatching to your external code.
> If you external function is meant to do very small amounts
> of work over very frequent invocations, external functions
> aren't as obvious a choice and the benefits aren't nearly
> as dramatic as you predict.
>
> Conversely, things which do very large amounts of work
> can push Python programs to at-or-near C speeds when
> done right. Calculations in Numeric Python (and friends)
> come to mind.
>
> C//
>