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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-02-05 10:57:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-02-05 10:57:17 (GMT) |
| commit | 09264b66f2fa28cc68433bf3b85e6c6c04403c6f (patch) | |
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Mention Cython and remove obsolete alternatives
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/extending.rst b/Doc/faq/extending.rst index 678f1bd..fa8e6e7 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/extending.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/extending.rst @@ -45,10 +45,11 @@ time-critical functions in your code, and gain a significant improvement with very little effort, as long as you're running on a machine with an x86-compatible processor. -`Pyrex <http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/>`_ is a compiler -that accepts a slightly modified form of Python and generates the corresponding -C code. Pyrex makes it possible to write an extension without having to learn -Python's C API. +`Cython <http://cython.org>`_ and its relative `Pyrex +<http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/>`_ are compilers +that accept a slightly modified form of Python and generate the corresponding +C code. Cython and Pyrex make it possible to write an extension without having +to learn Python's C API. If you need to interface to some C or C++ library for which no Python extension currently exists, you can try wrapping the library's data types and functions |