Re: [pygame] Python and Speed

[Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Mallett wrote:
> How do you write an extension module in C and call it from Python?   
> Someone gave some instructions earlier, but I found them too vague...

Another way I forgot to mention earlier is to use the
ctypes module (I often forget about it, because it wasn't
in the stdlib until very recently.)

That allows you to call compiled routines from a shared
library directly without having to write any C. It's
less efficient, though, as it has to go through some
Python wrapper objects to get there, and also more
dangerous, because you can easily crash the interpreter
if you don't get everything exactly right.

--
Greg