[Pyrex] Constructive Help....

[Martijn Faassen]

Christopher Armstrong wrote:
> Personally, I understand the concepts of C but can't seem to write C
> code straight up (I've probably written far less than 1000 serious
> lines in my life). When I started hacking on soya3d the pyrex stuff
> was infinitely easier to deal with. So knowing how to write C code
> reasonably isn't quite necessary, but understanding pointers and
> structs and arrays and compilers, etc. probably is.

And very important is understanding memory management and what can go 
wrong with it -- otherwise your Pyrex-based extension will likely either 
leak memory or crash. Another thing that Python spoils us with.

Regards,

Martijn