Hi, as a Christmas present from me, Cython made it to Debian couple of hours ago:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/cython Could you please Robert release a new version with the automatic range() conversion? I'll package it. I could of course take the hg changeset and patch the debian package, but I think it's better if you just make a regular release. For those not yet using Cython - it's really an extremely good piece of software. It leaves me the full power like if I used the Python C/API by hand, but it's imho even easier to use than SWIG (and of course the output is incomparable - SWIG creates a slow bloated interface, Cython create the same as you would by hand - fast, simple, robust interface). It allows my to call C from Python or Python from C, whatever I want. The only area, where SWIG may be easier to use, is wrapping external C++ code. But in my own projects, that use SWIG, I actually always write a simplified C++/C for the external library first and only that wrap it using SWIG. I also tried to rewrite some code in fortran and wrap it using f2py, and then just took the original python code and Cythonized it (using numpy arrays), and I could easily achieve the same speed (actually 2x faster than f2py, but I will post a new email about that with all details, it could be a mistake on my side). Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
