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Is Cython a Python implementation?

April 26, 2017cython Implementation Python

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Is Cython a Python implementation?

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Not officially, no. However, it compiles quite a lot of normal Python code, which gets it pretty close to a real Python implementation. In any case, it is an official goal for Cython 1.0 to compile regular Python code and run (most of) the normal Python test suite – obviously faster than CPython.