alt Hacker NewsThe "C based modules" bit is the kicker. A significant chunk of Python users essentially use it as a friendly wrapper for more-powerful C/C++ libraries underneath the hood.
The "C based modules" bit is the kicker. A significant chunk of Python users essentially use it as a friendly wrapper for more-powerful C/C++ libraries underneath the hood.
They've long since fixed the C based modules interaction, unfortunately a lot of common knowledge is from when it couldn't interact with everything.
If you've written it off on that basis, I'd suggest it's worth giving it another shot at some stage. It might surprise you.
Last I saw there was still a little bit more overhead around the C interface, so hot loops that just call out to a C module in the loop can be just a smidgen slower, but I haven't seen it be appreciably slower in a fair while.