[Tutor] Help with returning a list object from a C extension.

[Alan Gauld]

On 28/11/15 15:59, Laura Creighton wrote:

>> effort than ctypes to call a library function? I can't see any advantage,
>> so what am I missing?
> 
> Ctypes is slow.  

Aha. Performance is always the invisible feature.
I only ever use ctypes to access OS features that
don't have a Python equivalent function (and that's
rare). Performance has never been an issue so ctypes
has been just grand.

Cython is a whole different beastie though,
it's way cool! :-)


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