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golang_to_python shows a simple example how to create a python module that includes a golang code with its wrapping interfaces using cython. We can note that this strategy allows to simplify the wrapping interface code between golang and python by:

1. removing the cgo preamble code such as shown in https://blog.filippo.io/building-python-modules-with-go-1-5/,
2. improving the wrapping interface compatibility for the different versions of Python without any change of the code (e.g. no more #include Python.h header and c wrapped functions in the golang code that are version dependent).
3. interfacing third party libraries such numpy into the cython script such the wrapping interface can be not visible to the golang code and the python scripts (https://github.com/ryanbressler/numpy2go/blob/master/numpy2go.py).

Finally, the golang code and python scripts can just re-become clean!

This simple example has been tested with

• ubuntu
• golang = 1.9
• python = 2.7
• cython = 0.26
• gcc = 5.4