Also is the following points still all True?
* The :func:``globals`` and :func:``locals`` functions cannot be used.
* Class and function definitions cannot be placed inside control structures.
* There is no support for Unicode. # I believe this isn't true . . . definitive
answer?
* Special methods of extension types cannot have functioning docstrings.
* The use of string literals as comments is not recommended at present,
because Cython doesn't optimize them away, and won't even accept them in
places where executable statements are not allowed.
Semantic differences between Python and Cython
----------------------------------------------
Behaviour of class scopes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In Python, referring to a method of a class inside the class definition, i.e.
while the class is being defined, yields a plain function object, but in
Cython it yields an unbound method [#]_. A consequence of this is that the
usual idiom for using the ``classmethod`` and ``staticmethod`` functions,
e.g.::
class Spam:
def method(cls):
...
method = classmethod(method)
will not work in Cython. This can be worked around by defining the function
outside the class, and then assigning the result of ``classmethod`` or
``staticmethod`` inside the class, i.e.::
def Spam_method(cls):
...
class Spam:
method = classmethod(Spam_method)
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