[pypy-dev] Python FFI

[Armin Rigo]

Hi Stefan,

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> I'm with Jean-Paul here.

...for a reason that might be unrelated to Jean-Paul's original
complain: it's not like Cython gives first-class object manipulation
on the result of parsing its .pyx files...  well, too bad but Python
is not Lisp :-)

> I don't think there's anything wrong with requiring declarations for
> external C code to live in external modules.

I'm not against the idea of recognizing also Cython syntax extensions
in the declarations, and indeed external files are a better idea than
big inlined strings then.  But I would also like to try out different
paths.  In one of them, these inline declarations would contain mostly
just "#include <foo.h>" and the real header would be processed with
the help of the C compiler.


A bientôt,

Armin.