How to call and execute C code in Python?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 13/05/2012 18:38, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Mark Lawrence, 13.05.2012 19:23:
>> On 13/05/2012 16:39, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:25 PM, David Shi wrote:
>>>> Can anyone tell me how to call and exectute C code in Python?
>>>
>>> Browse the documentation about Extending and Embedding Python, there's
>>> an extensive API.
>>
>> I like your response, my first thought was to say "yes" :)
>
> It has a serious learning curve all by itself, though, with a lot of major
> pitfalls not only for new users. It also requires C fluency, which not
> everyone has or wants to learn just to be able to talk to existing C code.
> And even when you're up to speed with all that, you will waste a
> substantial part of your time debugging crashes, making your code reference
> leak free and eventually maintaining it and porting it to different CPython
> versions and platforms. Time that IMHO is much better spent adding features
> and tuning the code for performance.
>
> Stefan
>

Haven't the faintest idea what you're on about so please explain.

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Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.