Pyrex - The speed of Python with the clarity of C?

[Giles Brown]

SeeBelow at SeeBelow.Nut wrote in message news:<40AE9A5E.8F514E3B at shaw.ca>...
> But does this C code get compiled into machine code?  If so, What
> compiler does that, and when?

The pyrex installation provides distutils extensions.  This lets
you create a setup.py which compiles your .pyx files into .c files
and then your .c files into .pyd modules.  It really is extremely
simple, but it does rely on having a C compiler set up that distutils
can use.

Best of luck,
Giles