Sebastien Binet wrote: > hi there, > > I am in the process of applying what I learnt at last SciPy'08 tutorial (yes, > I am that slow) on an almost-real-life project of mine. > Up to now I am trying to translate an old C++/PyCxx project (which does not > compile anymore) into Cython: so far so good. > > One thing, though: the separation of '.pyx' and '.pxd' files to export > declarations is a bit too C-ish. > > Couldn't the same functionality be achieved by re-using the __all__ module > attribute ? > > ## mymodule.pyx ## > __all__ = ( 'Foo', 'bar') > > cdef class Foo: > # implementation elided > > cdef int bar(): > return 42 > ## EOF ## > > ## test.pyx ## > cimport mymodule > print "bar:",mymodule.bar() > ## EOF ## > > I suppose I am missing some implementation detail, but from my 20k feet > overview, it seems that should work :) > I remember that the basic idea of this feature (which would be implemented as "generate pxd files automatically from pyx files") has been discussed earlier (Sage dev 1 days?) and it's definitely on our would-like-to-do-if-we-get-time list :-) The idea about using the __all__ attribute to declare what symbols to export was new; I like it!
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