[pypy-dev] Does/will pypy support cpython's c extension modules?

[Sean Lynch]

Please no. Porting modules to ctypes is well worth the effort because
then they will work with Jython and IronPython as well as CPython and
PyPy. IMHO the CPython extension API is the "wrong" way to extend Python
and has been since the beginning, not least because it assumes
implementation details of the interpreter like reference counting,
object layout, etc.

James Matthews wrote:
> Why not if Cpython can then pypy can !
>
> On 1/23/07, Simon Burton <simon at arrowtheory.com> wrote:
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>> Not likely.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:29:00 -0500
>> Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Subject says it all.  Will I be able to use my existing c (c++
>> actually)
>> > modules?
>> >
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