New example: ctypes

[liquidcarbon]

HI all, wrote a little contribution to pixi examples. How do you feel about adding this?

https://github.com/liquidcarbon/pixi-examples-ctypes

Ctypes example: large factorials

This examples calculates approximate factorials of large numbers using pure Python or Python with ctypes.

Features demonstrated:

• packaging C and Python libraries together
• compiling with gcc through Pixi tasks
• conditional Pixi task execution (depends_on)
• defining tasks with arguments

Output

$ pixi run factorial 12345678 python
2023-11-06@18:49:19.296216|INFO|__main__.<module>:50|calculating approximate factorial of 12345678 using pure Python...
2023-11-06@18:49:23.992089|INFO|__main__.<module>:61|12345678! ≈ 1.457260e82187904

$ pixi run factorial 12345678 ctypes
2023-11-06@18:49:29.404679|INFO|__main__.<module>:53|calculating factorial of 12345678 using ctypes...
2023-11-06@18:49:29.947188|INFO|__main__.<module>:61|12345678! ≈ 1.457260e82187904

[ruben-arts]

Yes please! 😄

If you could make a Pull Request that would be awesome!.

[liquidcarbon]

great! I tried that first but the repo wouldn't let me push to a new branch.

[ruben-arts]

Ah the way to do this is by making a fork and develop on that fork. Then GitHub will automatically ask you to make a Pull request on the original pixi.