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Cython

Cython has two major benefits:

1. Making python code faster, particularly things that can't be done in scipy/numpy
2. Wrapping/interfacing with C/C++ code

Cython gains most of it's benefit from statically typing arguments. However, statically typing is not required, in fact, regular python code is valid cython (but don't expect much of a speed up). By incrementally adding more type information, the code can speed up by several factors. This gist just provides a very basic usage of cython.

jdye64

#!/usr/bin/python

print "Converting all of the .dav files in this current directory into .mp4 files using ffmpeg"	
import os
from subprocess import call

files = [f for f in os.listdir('.') if os.path.isfile(f)]
for f in files:
    ext = f.split(".")[-1]
    if ext == "dav" or ext == "DAV":