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Re:Speed up your Python using Rust by fnl on Saturday November 18, 2017 @04:01AM (#15728333)
If working in C++ land, I'd agree this is the nicest approach. It does, however, require linking against a specific libpython version [1], unlike Milksnake. But I'm not sure that's a bad thing...

[1] http://pybind11.readthedocs.io/en/master/basics.html#creatin...

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Re:Speed up your Python using Rust by stochastic_monk on Saturday November 18, 2017 @10:45PM (#15732139)
True. It's not that bad, though -- "python3-config --extension-suffix" or "python-config --extension-suffix" is all it takes to generate the suffix you want, and you can drop it straight in your site-packages folder. At that point, you're just dropping the 3 or not depending on your version.

It's not as simple as milksnake. I would like to see some smarter extensions added to pybind11, but I'm okay with that for now.

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