[pypy-dev] Converting from Python strings to C strings slow?

[Martin C. Martin]

Maciek Fijalkowski wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, but I'm not trying to write a standalone program, I need to 
>> call some 3rd party libraries.  For example, the string comes from one 
>> of a couple dozen of socket connections, managed by Twisted.  So I 
>> just want my inner loop in RPython.  The inner loop turns XML into a 
>> MySQL statement, which the main python program can then send to a 
>> database.
> You can do it that way, true. But it's pretty unofficial and 
> unsupported. Also you can only pass very simple types (ie list or dict 
> will not work).

Ah, thanks for letting me know.  And thanks for all your help today!

Best,
Martin