On 13 July 2013 14:14, Ben Darnell <b...@bendarnell.com> wrote: > I'd like to add a C extension to speed up a small bit of code in a package > (Tornado), but make it optional both for compatibility with non-cpython > implementations and for ease of installation on systems without a C > compiler available. Ideally any user who runs "pip install tornado" on a > system capable of compiling extensions would get the extensions; if this > capability cannot be detected automatically I'd prefer the opt-out case to > be the one that requires non-default arguments. Are there any packages > that provide a good example to follow for this?
I believe that coverage has an optional C extension like this. Paul
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