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[Python-Dev] Language Summit notes

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 19:55:57 CEST 2014 
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 April 2014 10:36, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
>> This would be superficial, but change the perception of CFFI to be "a
>> preprocessor that produces C extension modules".
>
> Thanks, that clarification helps a lot. Does this mean that "API-mode"
> CFFI is competing with things like swig (which is not used much these
> days, as far as I know) and Cython (which is used a lot in the numeric
> community)? ("ABI-mode" CFFI is obviously directly competing with
> ctypes).

Yes.
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