[jira] [Comment Edited] (ARROW-7) Add Python library build toolchain

["Maciej Bryński (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Maciej Bryński edited comment on ARROW-7 at 2/29/16 5:31 PM:
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Why not CFFI ?
https://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

In fact this is modern standard to communicate between Python and C.
CFFI has one big advantage over Cython. It works with PyPy.


was (Author: maver1ck):
Why not CFFI ?
https://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

> Add Python library build toolchain
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARROW-7
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-7
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Python
>            Reporter: Wes McKinney
>            Assignee: Wes McKinney
>
> I will be working on a patch to make the initial Arrow C++ {{libarrow.so}} library callable from Cython (http://cython.org/) extensions. For the uninitiated, Cython is the modern "gold standard" for interoperability with C++ libraries. I have used it recently to create Kudu's Python client (https://github.com/apache/incubator-kudu/tree/master/python/kudu).
> A significant amount of Python "glue code" will be needed to interoperate with pandas, NumPy, and other standard Python libraries (in addition to Python's built-in scalar data types), but these will be the subject of many follow up JIRAs.



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