Python has been around for a long time and although I was once fluent in the c language and had basic knowledge of c++, I did not pay attention to python but instead considered learning gtk+. It looks like python has made progress into areas involving data analysis, there are many books on O'Reilly, looks like fun, and I was not aware that c is the foundation for python. Perhaps python 3 is kind of constricting c/c++ programmers and spider people as it is starting to appear in all kinds of areas. Okay so cython is more on the python side than the c/c++ side if python is the language using the wrappers however since when do languages with different capabilities work together in the same program. I don't think I've heard of that before. I don't know about python either except that it is an object oriented language.