HPy: a better C API for Python?
HPy: a better C API for Python?
[Development] Posted Mar 31, 2021 22:24 UTC (Wed) by jake
The HPy project has been around for more than a year now; it is meant to provide an alternate C API for Python that allows extensions to the language to run, and run well, in more environments. It first came to our attention in a report of a talk at the 2020 Python Language Summit (LWN coverage), but it goes back to some discussions that were held at EuroPython 2019. There are a number of ways that the existing C API holds back innovation for Python, but there are also some hugely important extensions (e.g. NumPy) that use it; any change to the API needs to take those into account.