Learning Cython Programming - Second Edition电子书

Learning Cython Programming Second Edition

Table of Contents

Learning Cython Programming Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Cython Won't Bite

Installing Cython

Emacs mode

Getting the code examples

Getting started – Hello World

Using distutils with Cython

Calling C functions from Python

Type conversion in Cython

Summary

2. Understanding Cython

Linking models

Cython keyword – cdef

Structs

Enums

Typedef and function pointers

The public keyword

Keyword cpdef

Logging from C/C++ into Python

Using Python ConfigParser from C/C++

Callbacks from Python to C/C++

Cython PXD

Integration with build systems

Python Distutils

GNU/Autotools

Summary

3. Extending Applications

Cython pure Python code

Compiling pure Python code

Avoid Makefiles – pyximport

Python garbage collector

Extending Tmux

Tmux build system

Embedding Python

Cythonizing struct cmd_entry

Implementing a Tmux command

Hooking everything together

Summary

4. Debugging Cython

Using GDB with Cython

Running cygdb

Cython caveats

Type checking

Dereference operator (*)

Python exceptions

C/C++ iterators

Boolean error

Const keyword

Multiple Cython inputs

Struct initialization

Calling into pure Python modules

Summary

5. Advanced Cython

Cython and C++

Namespaces

Classes

C++ new and del keyword

Exceptions

Bool type

Overloading

Templates

Static class member attribute

Calling C++ functions – Caveat

Namespaces – Caveat

Python distutils

Python threading and GIL

Atomic instructions

Read/write lock

Cython keywords

Messaging server

Caveat on GIL

Unit testing the native code

Preventing subclassing

Parsing large amounts of data

Summary

6. Further Reading

Overview

OpenMP support

Compile time preprocessor

Python 3

PyPy

AutoPXD

Pyrex and Cython

SWIG and Cython

Cython and NumPy

Numba versus Cython

Parakeet and Numba

Relevant Links

Summary

Index