On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Stephane DROUARD wrote:

> Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>
>>> It seems the current community values speed more, otherwise they
>>> would just be using Python directly.
>>
>> Indeed
>
> Me too for sure.
>
> The fact is that I'm currently porting pure Python and SWIG modules to
> Cython.
> Some issues I'm having are due to a different behaviour between  
> Cython and
> Python. And they are not so easy to find, because my first reaction  
> is to
> review my code, not to consider the code generated by the tool(s)  
> may be
> "guilty".
>
> I would be happy to have switches at Cython level that ensure Python
> compatibility, then enable optimizations, ideally one by one,  
> helping me to
> fastly identify where to look at.
>
> Moreover, having thoses switches would let me decide whether I fix  
> the issue
> now or later on, according to my priorities.

I would be happy to have switches like this too, though for most  
cases the default would probably be set for speed rather than  
correctness.

- Robert


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