On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Greg Ward <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 17 January 2014, Pieter Hintjens said:
> > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Michel Pelletier
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, pyczmq is very much a literal 1 to 1 wrapper around the czmq C
> > > interface.
> > >
> > > Note that there is also an "object oriented" interface:
> >
> > CZMQ was designed to allow an OO interface on top; it may not succeed
> > in all classes. Where it's possible I'd probably not expose the 1-1
> > wrapper at all, and only provide the proper OO interface. (Less
> > confusing for users, maybe?)
>
> Having played around with pyczmq a little bit for a few hours, I'm
> starting to wonder if that's really the right way to wrap CZMQ. My two
> concerns are 1) import-time overhead and 2) the C-style interface (not
> OO, un-Pythonic).
>
> I note that pyzmq already solves both of these problems: it's much
> faster to import than pyczmq, and it exposes a nice Pythonic interface
> to the 0mq core API.
>
> Would it make sense for pyzmq to wrap CZMQ as well?
>

I don't think it would. Most of the things czmq adds to libzmq are more
logically reimplemented in Python, rather than exposed by linking anothing
library. The added C dependency would also be too much of a pain, given the
minimal benefit it provides at the Python level.

-MinRK


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