Clyther-how to get started?

Question

I don't get what Clyther is or how to use it.

My stuff: ATI OpenCl SDK (just dl'd) clyther beta (just dl'd) windows 7 pro 64 bit active python 3.1.2
Xfxs Ati radeon 5850 video card

I downloaded the ATI OpenCl SDK and the clyther beta from sourceforge. Then I tooke the sample 'reduce' function from the sourceforge documents and pasted the code into notepad and named it clythersample.py. When I double-click the file or open it in the interactiveshell, it gives an error message on the first line.

Is naming the file .py wrong? I guess clyther is its own lqnguage and not really python? Can I write python code and in the middle of the program, write a chunk of clyther code? Will python IDEs (esp. Wing understand and debug it?) Will it work with python 3 or do I need 2.6? Is 64 bit os ok?

(I'm not a programme or technically competent, so things like its a python API for OpenCl or it had C bindings for python don't mean a whole lot).

Answer 1

When you name the file .py (the file extension associated with python.exe) and double-click it, how is windows supposed to know it's supposed to run the file with CLyther?

Is naming the file .py wrong? I guess clyther is its own lqnguage and not really python?

Documentation compares it with Cython - so I suppose it's an extension to the language, i.e. they take Python and bolt moar features on it.

Can I write python code and in the middle of the program, write a chunk of clyther code?

From the goals of the project, it should (like Cython) ultimately be able to accept all or most Python code. So, yes - but of course you'd have to run the whole program with CLyther.

Will python IDEs (esp. Wing understand and debug it?)

Not natively, I suppose.

Side note: The project is in a very early stage of developement (very first beta-release), so don't expect things to run smoothly right now.