> If Python is allowed to call fast C code (PCRE) for regex-redux, I don't see why Python shouldn't be allowed to call fast Fortran BLAS/etc for n-body… The re

> If Python is allowed to call fast C code (PCRE) for regex-redux, I don't see why Python shouldn't be allowed to call fast Fortran BLAS/etc for n-body… The regex and arbitrary precision number libraries were allowed for regex-redux and pidigits because some language implementations wrapped those libraries rather than implement their own thing.