Hi, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >>> The main idea (Lisandro came up with this) is to build these >>> capabilities into cython itself by introducing the following syntax: >>> >>> cdef foo(size): >>> cdef double a[size] # This is like the dynamic arrays in C99 >>> # do stuff with a, but don't worry about deallocating the memory!!! [...] > and coerce it too (or from?) a Python object.
I find that a funny idea. We could generate an internal array iterator class that yields the coerced Python values in order, so that "list(a)" would work. :) >> 3) Long-term Python users with very little C experience might end up >> doing something like >> >> cdef double a[size] >> # fill in a >> return a > > If the return type is double*, an error can be given at compile time, > and if it's object it could even coerce to a Python list. I would say > a can neither be assigned to or used as an assignment to something > else--just indexed. Exactly. It's not a pointer, it's an array. Stefan _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list Cython-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
