On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: >> I don't understand why I'm getting the error. If I call a cdef function >> instead of a cdef method, it works OK; but shouldn't I be able to call a >> cdef method and passing a C type instead of a Python type? Otherwise, I >> will need to add an external cdef function for each class to create the >> object from the struct... I must be doing something wrong :). > > I consider this a deficiency of Cython. It should know the type of the > result when you call an extension type. > > http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/232
Hmm... I hope that eventually Cython will allow overriding __new__, at which point calling an extension type won't necessarily return a value of that type. (I see that Robert already made this point in a comment on the ticket.) Carl _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list Cython-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
