beginner's pyd question - exporting structs to python

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 16:39 +0000, Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> Brief introduction, and a beginner's question.
> 
> I just started playing with D a couple of weeks ago.  I have been 
> programming in C on and off since the late 80s, but I do finance 
> for a living and my programming skills grew rusty.  I have a bit 
> more time now to catch up with developments, and D looks a very 
> intriguing robust alternative to C when python won't cut the 
> mustard.

All the cool folk doing data analysis and visualization using Python no
longer bother with hand written C (*) for when pure Python won't cut the
mustard.  If Numba can't do the job, then Cython gets used.

I have all my computational pure Python source codes running as fast as
C these days thanks to Numba. (And judicious profiling.)

I would say that Python folk will now only be looking to C, C++,
Fortran, D, for pre-written libraries in those language. Given all the
codes are written in C, C++ or Fortran with none in D…

On the other hand PyD does work for me, but I only pass primitive types,
not C structs.


(*) Nor C++, nor D.
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