On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 17:13, drakkan <drakkan1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 Mar, 14:31, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> Le dimanche 21 mars 2010 à 02:10 -0700, drakkan a écrit : >> >> > a really interesting feature in sa 0.6 are the c extensions, however I >> > think they should be implemented using ctypes so if python ctypes >> > extension is available (default in python >=2.5 and available even for >> > 2.4) the c extensions are used as default, >> >> ctypes cannot compile your own C code. > > Yes I know my question is why sqlalchemy wrote his own C code and not > use ctypes?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK ctypes is a way to interface your Python code with external C libraries. You cannot create any new functionality with ctypes. And what I did for the C extension was rewrite in C the most speed-critical parts of *SQLAlchemy* (not of an external lib) ! I could have used cython (and I might actually rewrite what I have done thus far in cython at some point in the future), but ctypes??? -- Gaëtan de Menten -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalch...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.
