Joris De Ridder wrote: > Thanks. I've a few questions concerning the objections against ctypes.
It's not so much an abjection (I think), but the fact that pyrex/Cython really are different beasts, with different goals. > For ctypes your extensions needs to be > compiled as a shared library, The compiling isn't the key issue -- you're right, that's not too big a deal, and Scons helps. If your goal is primarily to wrap existing C code, then ctypes is a good option. But if you are trying to write new code as extension modules, then Cython helps with that a lot. You do need to "get" C, but you don't actually have to write functional stand-alone C code. > neither pyrex nor ctypes seem to be particularly user- > friendly concerning Numpy ndarrays True, though it looks like one of the goals of Cython is to make it more user-friendly to numpy arrays -- I'm really looking forward to that. I suppose an example might be in order here - does anyone have a small, but not trivial, example of an extension that could be done with both Ctypes and Cython that we could examine? By the way, I know Greg Ewing was asked about better support for numpy arrays in Pyrex, and he said "I'm *definitely* not going to re-implement C++ templates!" -- is there talk of creating a way to write extensions that could operate on numpy arrays of arbitrary type with Cython? -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
