On Wed, 08 Aug 2018 12:44:50 +0200 Matěj Cepl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2018-08-06, 15:13 GMT, Stefan Behnel wrote: > > Not sure I understand this correctly, but I think we're on the > > same page here: writing test code in C is cumbersome, writing > > test code in a mix of C and Python across different files is > > aweful. And making it difficult to write or even just review > > test code simply means that people will either waste their > > precious contribution time on it, or try to get around it. > > I was thinking about the same when porting M2Crypto to py3k > (M2Crypto is currently swig-based mix of C-code and Python). Is > it even possible to make a mix of Cython, swig-based C, and > Python? In the end I rather stayed with plain C, because the > combination seems unimaginably awful.
I'm not sure why anyone would want to use swig nowadays. > (Also, is Cython the best of all of them? What about cffi or > Nuitka?) This sounds like comparing apples to oranges. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
