> You didn't mention speed in your original post. Sorry, perhaps I considered this self-evident - which it is, of course, not.
> What about using > array.array? Unless I am mistaken, these are just a thin wrapper > around normal C arrays. The algorithm I want to implement requires several million floating point operations. Neither the array-modules nor numpy's thin layer seem thin enough for me. ;-) > Anyway you could always convert your list > into a c array, do lots and lots of fast calculations, then convert it > back again to a list. I guess I am too blind to see, but I couldn't discover a method description like "double* PyList_toDouble". So, yes, my question is a C-API-newbie question: What is the way to say "myCarray = SomePyMethod(InputPyList)"? Or better, what should be here instead static PyObject *_foo(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) { double *v; if (!PyArg_Parse(args, "(d)", &v)) return NULL; to get a list as an array of doubles into 'v' (and back to Python)? I did read the API-description, but still am lost at this point. I presume, once I get to know the answer I'll bang my head on the table ... ;-) Cheers Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list