jbrewer wrote: [I wrote:] >>You probably shouldn't post such large pieces of code to the list. > > OK.
BTW, please attribute your quotes. [Still me:] >>You mean a docstring on the module object itself? > > Actually, I meant docstrings to the module and the functions, objects, > methods, whatever else in the module. My code was derived from the > Python Cookbook, which left that part out (rather important for > building real C modules). In the method definition tables for top-level functions and type methods there is a place for the docstrings. You had them in your code. Please read the documentation on writing extensions. http://docs.python.org/ext/ext.html Specifically, http://docs.python.org/ext/methodTable.html http://docs.python.org/ext/node22.html [Thomas Heller wrote:] >>You should give up C with a dumb algorithm running at fast speed. >>Implement a better algorithm in Python, maybe you can even outperform >>the dumb code. > > That would be the next step if I needed even more speed, but the better > algorithm here would be to use KDTrees, which would be overkill (and > would require lots of development time). Not for you, it won't. google('kdtree python') > The C brute force > implementation runs plenty fast for me. It took only took a few hours > to implement and yielded a factor of 7 performance increase. I was > mostly interested in feedback on whether I had done things in a > properly efficient way (there are so many Python list / tuple / > sequence functions). I also find it hard to believe that there's no > standard Python function for converting sequences of one object to > arrays in C (a friend mentioned that Ruby's C API has this). > > Another question: how does the distutils package handle version > upgrades? Say for example I find some bugs in my C code and need to > recompile it, will it just overwrite what's present in the > site-packages directory? It will overwrite the files that have been changed. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list