Python to C converter / interpreter

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What are various tools to convert Python scripts to C. I am mainly looking at speed of such tools/converter/interpreter.

Thanks, -J

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '12 at 07:45

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cython is what you are looking for http://www.cython.org/

answered May 20 '12 at 07:45

Bander

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sounds interesting. thanks. ! – Jay D May 20 '12 at 09:09
+1, interesting, I'd missed that you could do this, it seems there is more information at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5710441/call-cython-function-from-c – Andrew Walker May 20 '12 at 11:52
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he said "python". Cython is not python. – fijal May 21 '12 at 18:35

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 20 '12 at 11:49

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Mark Dufour's Shedskin is an interesting alternative, that can parse a large subset of python, and translate it to C++. The project also has a really good blog

answered May 20 '12 at 11:49

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 20 '19 at 02:41

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You could use Pypy to translate a subset of Python language to C.

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answered May 20 '12 at 12:00

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Subset *means* subset. Very little useful Python code will pass as RPython unmodified, and 99% will become very ugly (compared to full Python) when converted to RPython. RPython is a quite different programming language that Python interpreters happen to accept. – May 20 '12 at 14:43

Python to C converter / interpreter

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