Building Python modules using C++
Python is an amazing programming language for lots of applications, particularly for bioinformatics. One of the potential downsides to using Python (apart from whitespace, non-static typing) is its speed. It’s certainly faster than languages such as R, but it’s nowhere near the level of C/C++. In fact, many Python modules are already written in C/C++ (such as NumPy) but it might be practical to have your own C/C++ code to interface with your Python objects....