Directly converting Python to C using the C API

2009-12-03 Thread Emmanuel Bengio
I'm fairly new to the python world, and I often heard critics about it's speed, and also about it's non-compilability. Then I thought, there is a complete C API that manages Python itself. Would it be feasible to transform pure Python code into pure Python C API code? It would spare the parsing

Re: Directly converting Python to C using the C API

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Emmanuel Bengio beng...@gmail.com wrote: I'm fairly new to the python world, and I often heard critics about it's speed, and also about it's non-compilability. Then I thought, there is a complete C API that manages Python itself. Would it be feasible to

Re: Directly converting Python to C using the C API

2009-12-03 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:09 PM, Emmanuel Bengio wrote: I'm fairly new to the python world, and I often heard critics about it's speed, and also about it's non-compilability. Then I thought, there is a complete C API that manages Python itself. Would it be feasible to transform pure Python code