On 13/04/2020 11:17, Steve Dower wrote:
On 11Apr2020 1156, Rhodri James wrote:
On 10/04/2020 18:20, Victor Stinner wrote:
Note: Cython and cffi should be preferred to write new C extensions.
This PEP is about existing C extensions which cannot be rewritten with
Cython.
If this is true, the documentation on python.org needs a serious
rewrite. I am in the throes of writing a C extension, and using
Cython or cffi never even crossed my mind.
Sorry you missed the first two sections: "Recommended third party tools"
and "Creating extensions without third party tools".
https://docs.python.org/3/extending/index.html
"Creating extensions without third party tools" is what I read, because
the preceding sections suggested to me that was what I was supposed to do.
The opening paragraph of the document more or less reads as "This is how
you write C extensions." It's an intro. That's fair enough.
The next section, "Recommended third party tools", basically says "Third
party tools exist." It notably does not say "Use them in preference to
what follows," so I didn't even look at them. There is in fact a mild
statement at the end of the first paragraph of the next section that
should have clued me in, but I missed it because I'd already skipped to
the table of contents.
If you have any suggestions on how to make this recommendation more
obvious, please open an issue and describe what would have helped.
I'll give it some thought, but fundamentally if you want people to use
the third party tools, you need a much stronger statement to that
effect. I'm sure I'm not the only one whose reaction to "third party"
is "not official then".
--
Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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