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Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: — C and C languages are the best for high performance, and probably have the largest quota among programming languages, implementing the backbone of all of the existing computing infrastructure, including those other programming languages. On the other hand, python usage is also very popular and growing, with its amazing simplicity, and it is being adopted as the generic language for learning and many other tasks ranging from BigData and systems to web sites. Python is also being widely used in development and systems automation “devops”, being the language of choice for many scripting tasks (build systems as SCons are written in python) or as glue between subsystems. This talk will introduce how both C and Python languages can work together. As many of the methods to write python extensions typically use a raw C API, we’ll focus on how to use C in such extensions, an
