> On 20 Feb 2018, at 13:12, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 20 February 2018 at 16:17, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:15:27 +0100 >> Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: >>> Nick Coghlan schrieb am 02.02.2018 um 06:47: >>>> to make the various extension module authoring tools >>>> easier to discover, rather than having folks assuming that handcrafted >>>> calls directly into the CPython C API is their only option. >>> >>> Or even a competitive option. Tools like Cython or pybind11 go to great >>> length to shave off every bit of overhead from C-API calls, commonly >>> replacing high-level C-API functionality with macros and direct access to >>> data structures. The C/C++ code that they generate is so complex and tuned >>> that it would be infeasible to write and maintain something like that by >>> hand, but it can perfectly be generated, and it usually performs visibly >>> better than most hand-written modules, definitely much better than anything >>> a non-expert could write. >>> >>> Basically, by not learning the C-API you can benefit from all that highly >>> tuned and specialised code written by C-API experts that the documentation >>> doesn't even tell you about. >> >> Doesn't the documentation ever mention Cython? It probably should (no >> idea about pybind11, which I've never played with). Perhaps you can >> open an issue about that? > > We mention them in the Extending & Embedding guide, and link out to > the page on packaging.python.org that describes them in more detail: > https://docs.python.org/3/extending/index.html#recommended-third-party-tools
Can you add PyCXX to the list please? Barry > > Cheers, > Nick. > > P.S. There are also a number of open issues at > https://github.com/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide/issues regarding > additional projects that should be mentioned in > https://packaging.python.org/guides/packaging-binary-extensions/ > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
