Summary

Now that we've covered both alternatives, their main characteristics, and their ups and downs, it is really up to the developer to pick one or the other. There is clearly no better one, since they are meant for different scenarios, although they might seem to accomplish the same thing.

The main take-away from this chapter should be the points mentioned earlier, the main characteristics of each approach, and when each one should be used.

In the next chapter, we'll continue with the optimization tools. This time, we will look at Cython (an alternative that allows you to compile your Python code on C) and PyPy (an alternative interpreter written in Python that is not bound to the GIL like CPython is).