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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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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/faq/design.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/faq/extending.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/faq/programming.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst index 217ee18..b9faf57 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/design.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst @@ -418,11 +418,9 @@ much speed. .. XXX check which of these projects are still alive There are also several programs which make it easier to intermingle Python and C -code in various ways to increase performance. See, for example, `Psyco -<http://psyco.sourceforge.net/>`_, `Pyrex -<http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/>`_, `PyInline -<http://pyinline.sourceforge.net/>`_, `Py2Cmod -<http://sourceforge.net/projects/py2cmod/>`_, and `Weave +code in various ways to increase performance. See, for example, `Cython +<http://cython.org/>`_, `Pyrex +<http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/>`_ and `Weave <http://www.scipy.org/Weave>`_. 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 diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst index fdfd9ec..07e6818 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst @@ -127,9 +127,9 @@ increased speed. .. XXX seems to have overlap with other questions! -`Pyrex <http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/>`_ can compile a -slightly modified version of Python code into a C extension, and can be used on -many different platforms. +`Cython <http://cython.org>`_ and `Pyrex <http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/>`_ +can compile a slightly modified version of Python code into a C extension, and +can be used on many different platforms. `Psyco <http://psyco.sourceforge.net>`_ is a just-in-time compiler that translates Python code into x86 assembly language. If you can use it, Psyco can |