Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Dag Sverre Seljebotn, 10.03.2010 12:57:
>   
>> It was agreed earlier to put pxds for the CPython API into the namespace
>> "python". However I'm wondering if "cpython" is more appropriate, given
>> that the CPython API is very CPython-specific and has very little to do
>> with Python as a language. "python" seems a little to generic to me,
>> while "cpython" seems specific and to the point.
>>     
>
> I think that Cython is so CPython-specific itself that this is a non-issue.
>   

It's more a question of friendliness and readability -- I find "python" 
non-obvious/confusing myself in this context...

(Also, theoretically, it could, at least in the future, be possible to 
have a .py file with pure Python mode Cython code that can both run 
under Jython or under very heavily optimized Cython/CPython API, using 
some if-tests etc.)

Dag Sverre
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