[capi-sig] Segfault when using own C-written module and exiting python

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

laurent wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 13:23 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> If the existing code base isn't too large yet, consider switching to Cython
>> instead of C.
> 
> The C part is only a little more than 2000 lines of source so far
> (and with no plan to go much beyond that, it's about feature-complete
> for a first release).

This might be a good read then:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.cython.devel/1965


> The CPython project looks very nice.

Cython. CPython is the name commonly used for the standard Python implementation.


> However, there are potentially dark corners I have to work around (and
> so far I am not completely successful at it, as my post suggests

Then you should really consider letting Cython give you a hand with the ugly
things (like garbage collection or class definition), so that you can
concentrate on the more interesting stuff.

Stefan