[dmurray]

OK, in that case I think it's a very reasonable choice! Perhaps it's worth clarifying that in the article.

I might express a slight preference that your internal code is idiomatic if I'm going to be poking around in there at some point. But I wouldn't be bikeshedding about your C coding style if you'd provided a Python module written in C, so I don't feel I should have a strong opinion as a user here.