[zeromq-dev] problem building pyzmq

[eric]

Thank you Robert for the clarification. I did mean cython, and I checked 
my command line history just to make sure I have been typing "cython" 
and I have been :-)

--eric

On 11/13/2010 04:19 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2010-11-13 17:25 , eric wrote:
>
>>>       The good news is that I finally got cpython installed and was able to
>>>       install pyzmq.
>>>
>>>
>>> That's good to hear. Did you have to somehow get cpython separately? If
>>> so, the cython list should probably be notified that their code isn't
>>> installing properly.
>>
>> Separately from what? All I know is that things weren't compiling, then
>> I tried to use pip to install cpython but that didn't seem to fix
>> things, so I tried easy_install, and now things work.
>
> Just to clarify for everyone, I think you mean "Cython" instead of "cpython". We
> often use "CPython" to refer to the standard Python interpreter implemented in C
> (as opposed to Java's Jython or .NET's IronPython). This is distinct from the
> Cython package, which provides a tool for writing extension modules for the
> CPython interpreter. That one letter is quite important. :-)
>