On Aug 12, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>> The Cython philosophy is that one should be able to take a piece of
>> Python code, compile it with Cython, maybe sprinkle in some static
>> type declarations, and the behavior should be essentially the same
>
> I, for one, like this approach, which is why I was surprised by the  
> None
> issue.
>
> If I write a python function that expects a numpy array, and I pass a
> None into it, I'll get an exception.
>
> If I write a Cython function that expects a numpy array and declare  
> that
> in the function signature, then pass a None it, I get a bus error (or
> who knows what other ugly crash).

The difference in behavior is that an exception is raised as soon as  
the function is entered, vs. somewhere down the line. Of course, a  
hard crash vs. a Python exception (at the wrong spot or not) is  
pretty glaring, but the plan is to change that.


On Aug 12, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Christopher Barker wrote:
>
>> NOTE: it would be a good idea to add that to examples and  
>> tutorials, too.
>
> In the spirit of putting my time where my mouth is, I just updated the
> numpy tutorial with "non None" information:
>
> http://wiki.cython.org/tutorials/numpy
>
> please edit, or roll back if you don't like it.

Thanks!

- Robert
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