[pypy-dev] unladen/swallow, pyjs+pyv8, pyjs+python-spidermonkey: accessing c python modules from optimised python compilers

[Michael Foord]

2009/4/23 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>

> > Well, we've achieved binary compatibility with a large proportion of the
> > Python C-API for IronPython (including GC and GIL issues) with Ironclad.
> >
> > http://resolversystems.com/documentation/index.php/Ironclad
>
>  *stunned*.  holy crap.  correct me if i'm wrong, but it looks like
> ... you ... you... reimplemented the entire CPython library API, um...
> um...  i think the word i'm looking for is...  "RESPECT".
>
>  you _crazy_ fools :)
>


Heh heh, that's an appropriate reaction - almost all the work was done by a
developer called William Reade. Huge chunks of SciPy and Numpy can be used
with IronPython through Ironclad.

It's not (yet...) the entire API, but it is a big chunk of the Python C API.

Michael Foord

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