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Learning Cython Programming (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By : Philip Herron
Book Image

Learning Cython Programming (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By: Philip Herron

Overview of this book

Cython is a hybrid programming language used to write C extensions for Python language. Combining the practicality of Python and speed and ease of the C language it’s an exciting language worth learning if you want to build fast applications with ease. This new edition of Learning Cython Programming shows you how to get started, taking you through the fundamentals so you can begin to experience its unique powers. You’ll find out how to get set up, before exploring the relationship between Python and Cython. You’ll also look at debugging Cython, before moving on to C++ constructs, Caveat on C++ usage, Python threading and GIL in Cython. Finally, you’ll learn object initialization and compile time, and gain a deeper insight into Python 3, which will help you not only become a confident Cython developer, but a much more fluent Python developer too.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning Cython Programming Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Implementing a Tmux command


One caveat with Cython is that we cannot statically initialize structs like we can in C, so we need to make a hook so that we can initialize cmd_entry on Python startup:

cimport cmdpython

cdef public cmd_entry cmd_entry_python

With this, we now have a public declaration of cmd_entry_python, which we will initialize in a startup hook as follows:

cdef public void tmux_init_cython () with gil:
    cmd_entry_python.name = "python"
    cmd_entry_python.alias = "py"
    cmd_entry_python.args_template = ""
    cmd_entry_python.args_lower = 0
    cmd_entry_python.args_upper = 0
    cmd_entry_python.usage = "python usage..."
    cmd_entry_python.flags = 0
    #cmd_entry_python.key_binding = NULL
    #cmd_entry_python.check = NULL
    cmd_entry_python.execc = python_exec

Remember that because we declared this in the top level, we know it's on the heap and don't need to declare any memory to the structure, which is very handy for us. You've seen struct access before; the function...