On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:49 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, take this one. C is faster than Python. It would be useful, in > certain cases, to write C. > > It is possible but inconvenient, out of the way.
Making that easier is a worthy goal... > Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 11:48:51 -0800 (PST) > Subject: C function in a Python context > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/cd2f79dd12e81912/ > > A simple compile and link function. Useful for basic cases; if you > want to get fancy, don't use it. ...and THAT's your solution?!? That solution is more insane than clever. I enjoy thinking outside the box as much as anybody, but requiring the run-time environment to have a compiler so that it can compile a piece of "inline C code" every time the program is run is absolutely ludicrous. > My suspicion is that my choices of message subjects, function names, > and variable names, is the biggest hang up. I think your biggest hangup is that you believe too much in your own creativity. There are already viable solutions out there for integrating C and Python: Pyrex, Cython, and ctypes come to mind. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
