[Cython] expy

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Jul 21, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:

>
> Neal Becker wrote:
>> This is an interesting approach:
>>
>> http://expy.sourceforge.net/
>
> Well, I read about it, too, as it was advertised on python-dev  
> (mistakenly,
> I assume). It's similar to Cython in that it allows you to write  
> Python
> function glue code as Python funtions. However, that only handles  
> the plain
> call code. Having to put everything else into plain strings sounds  
> pretty
> awkward to me. It may be ok for thin wrappers, but I doubt that  
> it's usable
> to write real code at the wrapper layer.

Yep, that's the impression I got too. Might be easy for writing  
simple glue, but not for writing code (especially anything that needs  
to handle refcounting). Feels a lot like Weave (more powerful in some  
ways, less useful others).

- Robert