[Python-Dev] Let's change to C API! (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Jul 31 03:45:28 EDT 2018

On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:27:03 +0200 Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at 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.

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