Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Dan Stromberg
wrote: IMO, we really, really need some common way of accessing C libraries that works for all major Python variants.
We have one. It's called writing an extension module.
I think Dan means some way of doing this without having to hand-craft a different one for each Python implementation. If we're really serious about the idea that "Python is not CPython", this seems like a reasonable thing to want. Currently the Python universe is very much centred around CPython, with the other implementations perpetually in catch-up mode. My suggestion on how to address this would be something akin to Pyrex or Cython. I gather that there has been some work recently on adding different back-ends to Cython to generate code for different Python implementations. -- Greg