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Language Basics
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Declaring Data Types
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As a dynamic language, Python encourages a programming style of considering
classes and objects in terms of their methods and attributes, more than where
they fit into the class hierarchy.
This can make Python a very relaxed and comfortable language for rapid
development, but with a price - the 'red tape' of managing data types is
dumped onto the interpreter. At run time, the interpreter does a lot of work
searching namespaces, fetching attributes and parsing argument and keyword tuples.
This run-time ‘late binding’ is a major cause of Python’s relative slowness
compared to ‘early binding’ languages such as C++.
However with Cython it is possible to gain significant speed-ups through
the use of ‘early binding’ programming techniques.
.. note:: Typing is not a necessity
Providing static typing to parameters and variables is convenience to
speed up your code, but it is not a necessity. Optimize where and when needed.
In fact, typing can *slow down* your code in the case where the
typing does not allow optimizations but where Cython still needs to
check that the type of some object matches the declared type.
C variable and type definitions
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