It's getting close to the finish of my Fwrap work on SciPy. I'll get something to the list on that soon. Meanwhile here's a small start re: Cython vs. SciPy: cythonize.py ------------- I've been working with a lot of Cython files. Since Cython isn't (currently at least) invoked by the build system and is not a build-time dependency, I created a development-time utility script to scan for Cython files and invoke Cython in a way that is fast and hopefully safe with git (I had a Makefile, but that didn't work well with switching git branch). https://github.com/dagss/scipy-refactor/blob/cythonize/cythonize.py (Ignore the "-refactor", it is based off scipy/master). It: - First, checks if there's been any changes since the last time it was regenerated by you (checked by sha1 hash against a local "cythonize.dat") - Then, checks with git to see if the .c has been committed in a child commit to the .pyx (it is assumed you use git) - Finally, resort to invoking Cython. I'm sure it needs some polish/Python 3 support etc. (but keep in mind that it is a development time script only). Also, it won't currently strip comments like, e.g., generate_qhull.py did. Feedback welcome. Tempita --------- I needed a template language, and since Robert Kern recommended Tempita, I went with that for wrappers I made with Fwrap: http://pythonpaste.org/tempita/ cythonize.py above will interpret ".pyx.in" as being Tempita-templated Cython source code. Later (too late) I discovered that Mako was already in use in SciPy in interpolate/interpnd.pyx. In the "cythonize" branch linked to above I've converted it to use Tempita instead, in case you agree with that. The advantage with Tempita is that it fits in a single ~1000-line Python file, so that it should be convenient to bundle it with the build system on a later date. Dag Sverre