python/c api

[Stefan Behnel]

Tony, 14.10.2010 20:04:
> is the python/c api extensively used? and what world-famous software
> use it? thanks!

The Sage math system makes heavy use of it, mostly through Cython.

And the Python standard library has lots of modules that use it, e.g. zlib 
and sqlite3. You can expect that most packages on PyPI that are said to be 
written in other languages than Python use the C-API in one way or another.

Stefan