On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:27:03 +0200 Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> wrote: > On 2018-07-31 08:58, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > I think Stefan is right that we > > should push people towards Cython and alternatives, rather than direct > > use of the C API (which people often fail to use correctly, in my > > experience). > > I know this probably isn't the correct place to bring it up, but I'm > sure that CPython itself could benefit from using Cython. For example, > most of the C extensions in Modules/ could be written in Cython.
We don't depend on any third-party Python modules. Adding a Cython dependency for CPython development would be a tough sell. Also, a C extension can be built-in (linked statically into the interpreter), which I think would be hard to do with Cython. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
