Neil Schemenauer wrote:
Perhaps a "argument clinic on steroids" would be the proper approach. So, extensions would mostly be written in C. However, we would have a pre-processor that does some "magic" to make using the Python API cleaner.
You seem to have started on the train of thought that led me to create Pyrex (the precursor to Cython). It went like this: I was getting frustrated with SWIG because it wasn't powerful enough to do what I wanted. I thought about something that would let me write functions with Python headers and C bodies. Then I realised that to really make the C API bearable it would need to take care of refcounting and exception handling, so the body couldn't just be plain C, it would need some Python semantics as well. Given that, it seemed more sensible to base all of the syntax on Python. Also, I wanted to avoid the problem you get with all preprocessors, that when something goes wrong you get error messages in terms of the expanded code rather than the original source. To fix that I would need to do a full parsing and type analysis job -- essentially it would need to be a full-blown compiler in its own right. So, "argument clinic on steroids" is actually a pretty good description of Pyrex. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
