Python compiler?

[Rainer Deyke]

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> Has everyone contemplated upon creating a python 'compiler',  which can
> produce a self-contained binary executable?

import os
name = argv[1]
outfile = open('%s.c' % name, 'w')
infile = open('%s.py' % name, 'r')
outfile.write("""
  #include "Python.h"

  int main()
  {
    Py_Initialize();
    PyRun_SimpleString(%s)
    Py_Finalize();
    return 0;
  }
""" % infile.read())
infile.close()
outfile.close()
system('gcc -o %s %s.c' % (name, name))


>  (for when speed is an absolute
> neccessity)

A self-contained executable is no guarantee of speed.  I recently found that
even with extensions(*) in C++ (with Boost.Python), Python is too slow for
my own current game project.  I've since converted all of the Python code in
that project to C++.

*: There is a possibility that the real culprit was the binding between C++
and Python.  There is also the possibility that reshuffling some code to or
from the extension modules would have allowed me to keep using Python.  I
decided not to risk it; it only took three days to convert the Python code
to C++.


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