The big shots

[castironpi at gmail.com]

On Feb 19, 3:15 pm, Carsten Haese <cars... at uniqsys.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:49 -0800, castiro... at gmail.com wrote:
> > Ok, take this one.  C is faster than Python.  It would be useful, in
> > certain cases, to write C.
>
> > It is possible but inconvenient, out of the way.
>
> Making that easier is a worthy goal...
>
> > Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 11:48:51 -0800 (PST)
> > Subject: C function in a Python context
> >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/cd2...
>
> > A simple compile and link function.  Useful for basic cases; if you
> > want to get fancy, don't use it.
>
> ...and THAT's your solution?!? That solution is more insane than clever.
> I enjoy thinking outside the box as much as anybody, but requiring the
> run-time environment to have a compiler so that it can compile a piece
> of "inline C code" every time the program is run is absolutely
> ludicrous.
>
> > My suspicion is that my choices of message subjects, function names,
> > and variable names, is the biggest hang up.
>
> I think your biggest hangup is that you believe too much in your own
> creativity. There are already viable solutions out there for integrating
> C and Python: Pyrex, Cython, and ctypes come to mind.
>
> --
> Carsten Haesehttp://informixdb.sourceforge.net

OH YEAH.  Color me absent-minded.  File under "No, they're not
compiled."

On the other hand, a number of modules are not available on all
platforms.  'extcode' is merely not available on all machines.