Isn't Pyrex for writing extensions to Python? As for PyPy, I didn't scroll down far enough to see the compiler info. It does say it is Python written in Python at the top.
Shedskin is nothing but a compiler. On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:13:27 +0200, Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: > Chance Ginger wrote: >> If you are looking for a "real" python to C, well in this case >> C++ look for the shedskin compiler. It will take a rather >> nice subset of Python and generate C++ code from it. > > > In which sense is shedskin a more "real" python to C/C++ compiler than > some of the other mentioned projects? As most of the others (PyPy, > Pyrex), Shedskin works only for a small number of Python programs that > don't mix types too wildly. > > BTW: While the RPython (the subset of the Python language that PyPy can > compile) might not be extremely advanced, using it gives you a number of > very interesting features: like having the resulting program been > enhanced to not use the C stack (for deeply recursive code), using > different garbage collection strategies... > > Cheers, > > Carl Friedrich Bolz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
