On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > When Cython is run with the --embed-position option (or when > Cython.Compiler.Options.embed_pos_in_docstring is true), Cython writes > headers in the docstring like > > File: sage/rings/integer.pyx (starting at line 358) > > The filenames that Cython uses here are always made relative to the current > working directory. This is annoying for tools which extract this information > for introspection. It would be more useful to just write the path as-is > instead of making it relative. > > It would be easy to change this behaviour in Cython but I was wondering if > there is a specific reason for these relative paths.
IMO the relative paths make more sense in a way, because when the module is installed the path is relative to the file's location relative to its `sys.path` entry. If it defaulted to absolute paths then it would get `/path/to/my/source/code/package/module.py` baked into it, which is deceptive if the module is then installed, say, to `site-packages`. That's just my guess as to why it's a relative path by default. I'm not saying it's always necessarily the best choice--it would be nice if there were a compiler directive to change this. Erik _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
