py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Sun Sep 2 02:27:14 EDT 2012


Ramchandra Apte, 02.09.2012 08:10:
>> That's reason enough for it.  Do you plan to port all the standard 
> python modules as well, though?
> 
> Well, it should be quite easy because most of the _modules are either C accelerator (which there is no need to port) or a C wrapper (which should be trivial to port)

Nope, not at all. They use the CPython C-API internally, so in order to
port them, you'll have to reimplement that first. That's a huge amount of
work, as proven by the incompleteness of all other Python implementations
in that regard. If you think you can do better here then IronPython or
PyPy, please go ahead.

Stefan





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