There has been a lot of action for the Python C API in the last month or so—much of it organizational in nature. As predicted in our late September article on using the "limited" C API in the standard ...

The "limited" C API for CPython extensions has been around for well over a decade at this point, but it has not seen much uptake. It is meant to give extensions an API that will allow binaries built ...

The language of choice for large, high-performance applications in Linux is almost always C, or somewhat less often C++. Both are powerful languages that allow you to create high-performance natively ...

Long in development, the new major release of the Python-to-C compiler sheds legacy Python support and readies Cython developers for big changes in Python. The main goal behind Cython is to make it ...

A superset of Python that compiles to C, Cython combines the ease of Python with the speed of native code. Here's a quick guide to making the most of Cython in your Python programs. Python has a ...