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Cython: The Best of Both Worlds
March/April 2011 (vol. 13 no. 2)
pp. 31-39
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Stefan Behnel, Robert Bradshaw, Craig Citro, Lisandro Dalcin, Dag Sverre Seljebotn, Kurt Smith, "Cython: The Best of Both Worlds," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 31-39, March/April, 2011.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCSE.2010.118,
author = {Stefan Behnel and Robert Bradshaw and Craig Citro and Lisandro Dalcin and Dag Sverre Seljebotn and Kurt Smith},
title = {Cython: The Best of Both Worlds},
journal ={Computing in Science and Engineering},
volume = {13},
number = {2},
issn = {1521-9615},
year = {2011},
pages = {31-39},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2010.118},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Stefan Behnel, TU Darmstadt
Craig Citro, Google
Lisandro Dalcin, National University of the Litoral, Santa Fe
Dag Sverre Seljebotn, University of Oslo
Kurt Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Cython is a Python language extension that allows explicit type declarations and is compiled directly to C. As such, it addresses Python's large overhead for numerical loops and the difficulty of efficiently using existing C and Fortran code, which Cython can interact with natively.

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Index Terms:
Python, Cython, numerics, scientific computing
Citation:
Stefan Behnel, Robert Bradshaw, Craig Citro, Lisandro Dalcin, Dag Sverre Seljebotn, Kurt Smith, "Cython: The Best of Both Worlds," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 31-39, Mar./Apr. 2011, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2010.118
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