C. Titus Brown wrote:
Cython is a non-backwards-compatible fork of Pyrex, forked for the usual reasons [0].
As I see it, there are two main reasons for the fork: (1) I prefer to develop slowly and carefully, whereas the Cython people like to rush ahead and try out wild ideas. (2) There's a difference in philosophy between Pyrex and Cython. The goal of Pyrex is to provide an easy way to write efficient extension modules, and exact compatibility with Python is secondary. The Cython developers want to create a true superset of Python, so compatibility is more important to them. Considering that Pyrex favours efficiency over compatibility with Python where there's a conflict, it would perhaps be more appropriate for standard library use, if such a thing were to be considered at all -- which doesn't seem very likely in the near future. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
