On Jun 10, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Robert
> Bradshaw<[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Apr 29, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure--have you tried without the locals decorator in the  
>>>>> Python
>>>>> source? I hope this isn't a regression.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, as you can see, the locals is commented out. I'll try to  
>>>> bisect
>>>> it to see which commit broke it.
>>>
>>> Ok, so it never worked. I am a bit confused, because I thought the
>>> pure python mode worked fine for me before.
>>>
>>> In the current cython --- is there any way to keep a pure python  
>>> code,
>>> and create an accompanying pxd file that would annotate the cdef
>>> functions and classes?
>>
>> This should work, that's how I implemented this a long time ago. If
>> it's not working now it's because something broke (or, I'm not
>> promising that it's completely bug-free, but it should be good--we
>> use it to bootstrap Cython itself).
>
> So I made it to work by observing how things are done in Cython  
> itself.
>
> If you do:
>
> git clone git://github.com/certik/cython-test.git
> cd cython-test
> cython fact.pyx
>
> then it produces nicely optimized fact.c file. However, if you do:
>
> cython fact.py
>
> it produces a fact.c, that compiles, but it is not optimized --- the
> "i" and "r" variables are python objects, not ints, even though my
> fact.pxd file contains:
>
> import cython
>
> @cython.locals(i=cython.int, r=cython.int)
> cdef int factorial(int n)
>
>
> Do you see anything wrong with my files? Is this supposed to work?
>
> I think it is not implemented yet, because when I looked at the cython
> sources, it doesn't work there either. This is the relevant part of
> Scanning.pxd:
>
>     @cython.locals(current_level=cython.long, new_level=cython.long)
>     cpdef indentation_action(self, text)
>
> and here is the declaration in the generated Scanning.c:
>
>   PyObject *__pyx_v_new_level;
>
>
> And consider for example the following chunk:
>
>   /* "/home/ondrej/repos/cython-devel/Cython/Compiler/Scanning.py":398
>  *         new_level = len(text)
>  *         #print "Changing indent level from", current_level, "to",
> new_level ###
>  *         if new_level == current_level:             # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>  *             return
>  *         elif new_level > current_level:
>  */
>   __pyx_t_4 = PyObject_RichCompare(__pyx_v_new_level,
> __pyx_v_current_level, Py_EQ); if (unlikely(!__pyx_t_4))
> {__pyx_filename = __pyx_f[0]; __pyx_lineno = 398; __pyx_clineno =
> __LINE__; goto __pyx_L1_error;}
>   __Pyx_GOTREF(__pyx_t_4);
>   __pyx_t_3 = __Pyx_PyObject_IsTrue(__pyx_t_4); if (unlikely(__pyx_t_3
> < 0)) {__pyx_filename = __pyx_f[0]; __pyx_lineno = 398; __pyx_clineno
> = __LINE__; goto __pyx_L1_error;}
>   __Pyx_DECREF(__pyx_t_4); __pyx_t_4 = 0;
>   if (__pyx_t_3) {
>
>
> both the new_level and current_level are declared as long, but above
> you can see that Cython is calling lots of Python C/API methods...

Looks like a bug to me.

http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/330

- Robert

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