[Python-ideas] discouraging direct use of the C-API

Florian Bruhin me at the-compiler.org
Thu May 7 10:18:44 CEST 2015


* M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> [2015-05-07 09:56:15 +0200]:
> Aside: The fact that we have so many nice C extensions out
> there is proof that we have a good C API. Even though it is
> not visible to most Python programmers, it forms a significant
> part of Python's success.

Are many of those using the C API directly rather than using some
bindings generator?

Most projects I'm aware of use Cython/cffi/SWIG/... and not the raw C
API, which is kind of the whole point here :)

Florian

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