On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> Well, I guess it is too late to complain... But I think that explicit
> is better than implicit here, then I do not like this... I do not even
> like the automatic casting to bare char* !! It is almost impossible to
> be 100% sure that you code is bytes/unicode clean!
>
> Could we have at least a compile directive (or perhaps better/easier a
> global option?)  to DISABLE these automatic castings to char*/uchar* ?

It's certainly too late to disable it now, but I would be up for an  
option that gives errors/warnings. (Maybe -W or lint flags of some  
kind.)

Just out of curiosity, what would the explicit method be? Python/C API?

- Robert

>
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Stefan Behnel  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>>> On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>>> I don't think there's anything wrong with letting Cython do the
>>>> necessary casting under the hood.
>>>
>>> http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/359
>>
>> Ok, I pushed a patch to both cython-devel and cython-unstable.
>>
>> http://hg.cython.org/cython-devel/rev/d273a3dc784b
>>
>> I hope these casts pass as expected...
>>
>> Stefan
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