writing a C function to manipulate python lists

[Dave Cole]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Vanier <mvanier at endor.bbb.caltech.edu> writes:

Michael> I've been programming in python for many years but have never
Michael> had to solve this particular problem.  I would like to write
Michael> a short C function that will be part of a python-callable
Michael> module.  The function will receive two python lists as
Michael> arguments.  Currently I do this in python, but my code uses
Michael> this function very heavily and it's the major speed
Michael> bottleneck in the code.  The hope is that the C function will
Michael> be much faster than iterating through the lists in python
Michael> (which may not be true, but I'd like to see for myself).

Since I have been doing a few of these for people on this newsgroup
lately, I suppose I should be fair and extend the same offer to you
:-)

If you post the code and it is simple enough, I might be able to whip
up the C equivalent in an hour or so.

- Dave

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