Commit 9b08f2ff authored by ggellner@encolpuis's avatar ggellner@encolpuis

Updated pyrex differences and limitations to better reflect current Cython

parent 21675932
......@@ -77,10 +77,6 @@ Other Current Limitations
* The :func:`globals` and :func:`locals` functions cannot be used.
* Class and function definitions cannot be placed inside control structures.
* Special methods of extension types cannot have functioning docstrings.
* The use of string literals as comments is not recommended at present,
because Cython doesn't optimize them away, and won't even accept them in places
where executable statements are not allowed.
Semantic differences between Python and Cython
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......@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ yields::
6
8
.. note:: see :ref:`automatic-range-conversion`
Boolean int type (e.g. it acts like a c int, but coerces to/from python as a boolean)
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......@@ -168,7 +170,9 @@ of step) can be determined.
This may change the semantics if the range causes
assignment to ``i`` to overflow. Specifically, if this option is set, an error
will be raised before the loop is entered, whereas without this option the loop
will execute until a overflowing value is encountered.
will execute until a overflowing value is encountered. If this effects you
change ``Cython/Compiler/Options.py`` (eventually there will be a better
way to set this).
More friendly type casting
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......@@ -260,3 +264,12 @@ file with an encoding comment and generally write your source code in UTF-8.
This impacts the encoding of byte strings and the conversion of unicode string
literals like ``u'abcd'`` to unicode objects.
Automatic ``typecheck``
========================
Rather than introducing a new keyword :keyword:`typecheck` as explained in the
`Pyrex docs
<http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/version/Doc/Manual/special_methods.html>`_,
Cython emits a (non-spoofable and faster) typecheck whenever
:func:`isinstance` is used with an extension type as the second parameter.
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