On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> wrote: > On 2018-08-17 11:44, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> >> Hej, that gives us an alternative for the versioning switch. We could >> release Cython 3.0 when we change the default language level (and require >> users to select "language_level=2" for legacy code). Definitely a breaking >> change that merits inceasing the major version, and 3.0 seems very >> suitable. > > > One annoying point with language_level=3 is that all string literals become > unicode (like from __future__ import unicode_literals). Unlike the other > changes that language_level=3 makes, this is a major breaking change on > Python 2. > > So I would very much prefer enabling everything that language_level=3 does, > but keeping strings of type "str" on Python 2. Maybe you could invent a new > option for that, say "language_level=3str"?
Do the existing c_string_type and c_string_encoding directives not cover this usecase? I suppose what you're asking for is str being the str of the runtime, even if language_level=3 is set. _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
