Re: [Cython] Willing to contribute

2011-08-04 Thread Greg Ewing
Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: - One idea is coercion of C pointers to ctypes Python objects and back again. Some way of requesting this manually might be useful, but I don't think I'd like it to happen automatically. Slinging raw pointers around in Python isn't something to be done lightly -- e

Re: [Cython] Willing to contribute

2011-08-04 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefano, 03.08.2011 22:53: I've been a enthusiast Python programmer for 3 years now, and I've hailed Cython project with great interest. Now, I'm willing to contribute. Cool. Since no-one pointed you there yet, there's a hacking guide with some hints to get you started: http://wiki.cython.or

Re: [Cython] Willing to contribute

2011-08-04 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
On 08/03/2011 10:53 PM, Stefano wrote: Hi everybody, I've been a enthusiast Python programmer for 3 years now, and I've hailed Cython project with great interest. Now, I'm willing to contribute. I've would say I'm an quite an expert Python programmer and I've some-year-long experience with C, mo

Re: [Cython] Willing to contribute

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Stefano wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've been a enthusiast Python programmer for 3 years now, and I've hailed > Cython project with great interest. Now, I'm willing to contribute. I've would > say I'm an quite an expert Python programmer and I've some-year-long > exp

Re: [Cython] Willing to contribute

2011-08-03 Thread Lisandro Dalcin
On 3 August 2011 17:53, Stefano wrote: > > Everything started with trying to speed up a Mandelbrot generator, which > heavily relies on complex numbers. Eventually I've found in "Mini Projects (or > something similar)" wiki that C99 `complex' is still to be implemented. So, I > decide to make a st

[Cython] Willing to contribute

2011-08-03 Thread Stefano
Hi everybody, I've been a enthusiast Python programmer for 3 years now, and I've hailed Cython project with great interest. Now, I'm willing to contribute. I've would say I'm an quite an expert Python programmer and I've some-year-long experience with C, modern C++ and its cousin Java. Sidenote