Robert Bradshaw wrote:
Name mangling is done for the standard reasons--to avoid possible
conflicts with all other symbols that may be defined.
The main reason for mangling names is that top-level declarations
in Cython belong to a module namespace, whereas C just has a
single namespace for all
On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
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> In my experience Cython has generally been fairly easy to pick up for
> people who already know Python. And Python often easy to pick up for
> people who already know C/C++. Of course for many wrappings it often
> takes non-trivial knowl
On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Ian Henriksen <
insertinterestingnameh...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Remember - cython is "the way" that comes up for how to glue C/C++ into
>> python these days, not just the program in cish python frontend for speed.
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> There's some truth to the issues you raise
ctypes/cffi aren't in the same class for comparison. Just at the start of
the list is basically a restriction from C++ name mangling fouling things
up.
Pybindgen uses a programmable model to generate bindings for existing
functions/classes only. It's a fair bit different from anything I had in
m
Robert Bradshaw schrieb am 21.08.2016 um 11:30:
> You ask at the beginning of the email whether time has vindicated our
> philosophy. I think, based on the mindshare vs. these other attempts
> at integrating with C, in large part it has. It has served us and our
> users well; we will strive to stay
Robert Bradshaw schrieb am 21.08.2016 um 11:11:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Jason Newton wrote:
>> PyInline's last news update was in 2004 where the author gives a "Hats of[f]
>> to PyRex", prior to that only a few blog entries in 2001/2002, I've not come
>> across any project using it but
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Jason Newton wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Jason Newton wrote:
>> > Accidentally posted to an already-opened tab for the cython-users ML
>> > yesterday, moving to here. Following up fro
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Jason Newton wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:19 PM, William Stein wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Jason Newton wrote:
>> > You must realize that almost any other python driven way to compile
>> > c-code
>> > in the spirit these projects do i
