<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was a C Programmer for a while. Lately started to learn Python for > one small project at school. I joined a small company where they use > C++ for development. > > Can we use Python and C together ? I mean create some classes in Python > and some number crunching algorithms coded in C (for speed) and > integreate both of them.
Sure! It's extremely common practice, known as "extending Python". > Could somebody just show a real small example or give pointers to the > same. Besides the Extending/Embedding and C API documents which are part of the standard set of Python docs, to which you've already been pointed in other responses, you can find tutorials on the net. A tiny one is at <http://www.developer.com/lang/other/article.php/2191421>, with pointers to other materials. Also, examples can be found in the Demos directory of the Python source distribution -- even if you have a binary distro installed, get the source distro anyway, it's full of goodies and you can use much of Python itself as an example of Extending (the Modules and Objects directories of the source distro, in particular, are just such examples). C is the lowest, most fundamental level of extension, but there are many other alternatives -- SWIG to wrap existing libraries, Boost or SCXX or SIP to wrap specifically C++ with very different philosophies (template heavy, minimal, Qt-based), pyrex (a Python "dialect" plus C-like declarations to make it compilable to fast machine code), and others yet. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
