Chapter 8. Extending Python
C is very efficient. Unfortunately, C gets that efficiency by requiring you to do a lot of low-level management of resources. With today’s machines as powerful as they are, this is usually a bad tradeoff—it’s smarter to use a language that uses the machine’s time less efficiently, but your time much more efficiently. Thus, Python.
—Eric Raymond, October 1996
In this chapter...
• Extending Python by Writing Extensions
In this chapter, we will discuss how to take code written externally and integrate that functionality into the Python programming environment. We will first present the motivation for why you do it, and then take you through the step-by-step process of how to ...
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