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From: "garyr" <garyr@fidalgo.net>
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Subject: Re: Building an extension module with SWIG
Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 15:55:07 -0700
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"garyr" <garyr@fidalgo.net> wrote in message
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> *snip*
>
>> Compile it ("cythonize -b foo.pyx") and you'll get an extension module
>> that
>> executes faster than what SWIG would give you and keeps everything in one
>> file to improve readability.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>>
>> [1] http://cython.org/
>>
>>
> Thanks for your reply. My interest is not in computing the gcd but to
> learn
> how build an extension module. I have some much more complicated C code I
> wish to use.
>
>
>
Thanks for your reply. I'm using the compiler that came with Anaconda Python
2.7. I too used SWIG a bunch of years ago but it has changed a lot since
then; e.g., it is now included in the Python distribution.