Native class methods

[Stefan Arentz]

"Chris Mellon" <arkanes at gmail.com> writes:

> On 09 Oct 2007 17:20:09 +0200, Stefan Arentz <stefan.arentz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is there an easy way to implement a specific method of a Python class
> > in C? Like a native method in Java? I would really like to do the
> > majority of my class code in Python and just do one or two methods
> > in C.
> >
> >  S.
> >
> 
> Weave kinda does this - you can use it write inline C code, which it
> extracts and compiles for you. (http://scipy.org/Weave)
> 
> You might also want to look at Pyrex and/or Cython, which let you
> write in a Python-like language that is compiled to C.
> (http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ and
> http://cython.org).
> 
> Depending on what you want to do in C, just writing it as a normal
> shared library and calling it with ctypes might also be an effective
> solution. (in the standard library, as of 2.5)

Yeah I'm really trying to do this without any dependencies on external
libraries. The ctypes way looks interesting but I had really hoped for
something more JNI-like :-/

 S.