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has caused the report #708986,
regarding cython: DEF converts byte strings to unicode
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seems like a possible side effect of one of recent changes (e.g.
"User declared char* types are now recognised as such and auto-coerce to
and from Python bytes strings." in 0.17)
Stefan -- what do you think?
On Mon, 20 May 2013, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Package: cython
> Version: 0.19+git51-g3078752-1
> Severity: important
> Control: block 708981 with -1
> Apparently DEF silently converts byte strings to unicode strings:
> $ cat testcase.pyx
> DEF ABYTE = b'a'
> print type(ABYTE)
> $ python -c 'import pyximport as p; p.install(); import testcase'
> <type 'unicode'>
> This didn't happen with wheezy's cython.
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