Hi Andreas,
It really does help. I was just not sure if it was an advised approach. I am going to press on with a bit more confidence now and will most likely be back here with some more cryptic context in due course. Thank you very much for the reply. Lewis > >While I'm not sure I can speak with authority on how common this type of >usage is, I think I can say with some confidence that Python is probably >one of the easier language in which to pull off a coupling such as what >you describe. In general, Python excels in the role of a 'glue' language >coupling disparate components together. > >For instance, there is an existing coupling module that would let you >talk to your IDL code and seamlessly exchange data as numpy arrays: > >http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mmckerns/pyIDL.html > >Python is further very easy to couple with existing C code, and perhaps >the main 'problem' is that there are a large number of approaches >available that you could use, ranging from 'cffi', 'swig', >'boost.python', and many more ways of accomplishing this wrapping. > >Hope that helps at least a bit, >Andreas _______________________________________________ PyCUDA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tiker.net/listinfo/pycuda
