On 9/6/05, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A better plan would be to build something akin to > Pyrex into the scheme of things, so that all the > refcount/GC issues are taken care of automatically.
That sounds exciting. I have to admit that despite hearing many enthusiastic reviews, I've never used it myself -- in fact I've written very little C code in the last few years, and zero new extension modules. (Lots of Java, but that's another story. :-) I expect that many standard extensions could benefit from a rewrite in Pyrex, although this might take a lot of work and in some cases not necessarily result in better code (_tkinter comes to mind -- though I don't really know why this would be). So this shouldn't be the goal (yet). Instead, we should encourage folks to write *new* extensions using PyRex. How stable is Pyrex? Would you be willing to integrate it thoroughly with the Python source tree, to the point of contributing the code to the PSF? (Without giving up ownership or responsibility for its maintenance.) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
