Commit de4f3aa8 authored by Robert Bradshaw's avatar Robert Bradshaw

Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/gotgenes/cython into gotgenes-master

parents c0cd9896 da8fa395
......@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ with C data types.
Cython is Python: Almost any piece of Python code is also valid Cython code.
(There are a few :ref:`cython-limitations`, but this approximation will
serve for now.) The Cython compiler will convert it into C code which makes
equivalent calls to the Python/C API.
equivalent calls to the Python/C API.
But Cython is much more than that, because parameters and variables can be
declared to have C data types. Code which manipulates Python values and C
......@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ information see :ref:`compilation`). Your :file:`setup.py` should look like::
setup(
cmdclass = {'build_ext': build_ext},
ext_modules = [Extension("helloworld", ["helloworld.pyx"])]
)
)
To use this to build your Cython file use the commandline options:
......@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Fibonacci Fun
From the official Python tutorial a simple fibonacci function is defined as:
.. literalinclude:: ../examples/tutorial/fib1/fib.pyx
.. literalinclude:: ../../examples/tutorial/fib1/fib.pyx
Now following the steps for the Hello World example we first rename the file
to have a `.pyx` extension, lets say :file:`fib.pyx`, then we create the
......@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ to have a `.pyx` extension, lets say :file:`fib.pyx`, then we create the
that you need to change is the name of the Cython filename, and the resulting
module name, doing this we have:
.. literalinclude:: ../examples/tutorial/fib1/setup.py
.. literalinclude:: ../../examples/tutorial/fib1/setup.py
Build the extension with the same command used for the helloworld.pyx:
......@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@ Here's a small example showing some of what can be done. It's a routine for
finding prime numbers. You tell it how many primes you want, and it returns
them as a Python list.
:file:`primes.pyx`:
:file:`primes.pyx`:
.. literalinclude:: ../examples/tutorial/primes/primes.pyx
.. literalinclude:: ../../examples/tutorial/primes/primes.pyx
:linenos:
You'll see that it starts out just like a normal Python function definition,
......@@ -161,11 +161,11 @@ which we can try out in the interactive interpreter as follows::
[2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29]
See, it works! And if you're curious about how much work Cython has saved you,
take a look at the C code generated for this module.
take a look at the C code generated for this module.
Language Details
================
For more about the Cython language, see :ref:`language-basics`.
For more about the Cython language, see :ref:`language-basics`.
To dive right in to using Cython in a numerical computation context, see :ref:`numpy_tutorial`.
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