On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:51 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: > > Dag Sverre Seljebotn, 03.12.2009 12:45: >>>>> cdef double f(): ... >>>>> x = f() # infer x as double >>> >> This is now http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/460. > > Note that I closed ticket 236, so you can now call a Python method > on a > corresponding C type, as in > > cdef int i = 1 > print i.__add__(1) > print i.bit_length() # Py3.1 > > It's implemented through coercion to a Python object. If we find an > important use case where this isn't fast enough (after all, this is > a very > rare use case anyway), we can always add a specific handler in > Optimize.py. > As this didn't work at all before, I don't expect it to break code > either > (although I had to fix one test case that tested for the original > error...)
Nice. With that, I can't see any place that inference of doubles wouldn't be safe either, and it would be very convenient. - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
