python to C ?

[Jason Lai]

mudd at vex.net wrote:
> I seem to remember an announcement on Daily Python-URL in the past year or
> two about a project that converts Python to C.  The goal wasn't to convert
> generic Python but a limited subset.  Something else unique was that the
> generated C code was sort of object oriented, actually readable.
> 
> But I don't remember the project name and can't find it even after many
> tries with Google, Vaults of P., etc.  And it wasn't Pyrex.  Does anyone
> recognize what I'm describing?
> 
> John
> 

The ones I've heard of are Python2C and PyFront. But I think they're 
pretty simplistic and haven't been updated for a long long time.

Pyrex sort of converts Python into C. It's not exactly Python code 
because of some limitations, I think, but it comes close. But the C code 
generated is *ugly*. I think the mangled variable naming has a lot to do 
with that.

Phil Frost suggested Psyco, but that actually generates assembly code, 
not C.

  - Jason