Commit 5655b446 authored by Stefan Behnel's avatar Stefan Behnel

better into to clibraries tutorial

parent 5ebe3fe5
......@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@ Using C libraries
Apart from writing fast code, one of the main use cases of Cython is
to call external C libraries from Python code. As Cython code
compiles down to C code itself, it is actually trivial to call C
functions directly in the code. The following describes what needs to
be done to use an external C library in Cython code.
functions directly in the code. You may have already seen this in the
simple tutorial on calling C functions. The following gives a
complete example for using (and wrapping) an external C library in
Cython code, including appropriate error handling and considerations
about designing a suitable API for Python and Cython code.
Imagine you need an efficient way to store integer values in a FIFO
queue. Since memory really matters, and the values are actually
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