[Scons-users] SCons vs Meson for Python projects

[Marc Joliet]

On Friday 25 November 2016 11:50:13 Saša Janiška wrote:
> Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> writes:
[...]
> > I would not want to write a Python extension in C, nor really Cython –
> > you have to hack your Python code so much for the C generation that the
> > code is Cython and not Python, why use a horrible language when C++ is
> > more honest and therefore easier to get right. If I want performance
> > Python code I go Numba not Cython – assuming NumPy/SciPy is not good
> > enough.
> 
> Numba might be interesting, indeed. However, for that kind of
> optimizations it is still too early, so the usage of Cython is more
> geared towards providing Pythonic API for 3rd party C library,
> iow. using Cython as bindings generator.

Personally, I like CFFI (http://cffi.readthedocs.io) for interfacing with C from Python.  I 
recommend taking a look, at least, if you haven't done so already.

[...]
> Sincerely,
> Gour

Greetings
-- 
Marc Joliet
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup

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