On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Sturla Molden <stu...@molden.no> wrote: > On 18.06.2012 16:12, Stefan Behnel wrote: > >> the PyPy folks have come up with a new FFI library (called cffi) for >> CPython (and eventually PyPy, obviously). > > > It looks like ctypes albeit with a smaller API. (C definitions as text > strings instead of Python objects.) > > Sometimes I think Python and a ffi would always suffice. But in practice > Cython's __dealloc__ can be indispensible, as opposed to a Python __del__ > method which can be unreliable. And Python's module loader mostly takes care > of the common problem of DLL hell.
This also assumes you're always able and willing to use/write a library written in a lower-level language like C or Fortran to actually do your heavy lifting. Cython (ideally) allows you to write your actual number-crunching code without learning an (entirely) new language. - Robert _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
