Python in sci/tech applications

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

Fredrik Lundh:
> last time I tried, it took me 20 minutes from that I typed "mingw" into
> google until I had built and tested my first non-trivial extension. your
> milage may vary.

But probably before those 20 minutes there is a lot of time of
experience of yours with CPython sources, other compilers, and so on,
so for most people this timing comparison just means "It can be done"
:-)

Bye,
bearophile