Lisandro Dalcin, 12.08.2010 16:10: > On 11 August 2010 18:49, Carl Witty wrote: >> >> I'll write a patch that fixes these problems. >> > > The testcase you added for #561 fails like this with Python 3: > > $ python3 runtests.py -T561 > > special_methods_T561.c:5000:2: error: #error __setslice__ and > __delslice__ not supported in Python 3. > special_methods_T561.c:5182:2: error: #error __setslice__ and > __delslice__ not supported in Python 3. > special_methods_T561.c:5364:2: error: #error __setslice__ and > __delslice__ not supported in Python 3. > > > I would say that you should just comment out the tests involving these > methods. We could try to support them at some point in Python 3, but > I'm not particularly interested in contributing the patch ;-)
IIRC, the decision was to not do anything about these methods. That's what the above error comes from. Their use has been discouraged since long before Python 3 was on the horizon, so if users implement them, it's their fault. Stefan _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
