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Cython Changelog
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0.27.1 (2017-??-??)
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Features added
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* The Jupyter magic has a new debug option ``--verbose`` that shows details about
  the distutils invocation.  Patch by Boris Filippov (Github issue #1881).
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Bugs fixed
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* Py3 list comprehensions in class bodies resulted in invalid C code.
  (Github issue #1889)

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* Modules built for later CPython 3.5.x versions failed to import in 3.5.1.
  (Github issue #1880)

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* Deallocating fused types functions and methods kept their GC tracking enabled,
  which could potentially lead to recursive deallocation attempts.

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* Crash when compiling in C++ mode with old setuptools versions.
  (Github issue #1879)

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* C++ object arguments for the constructor of Cython implemented C++ are now
  passed by reference and not by value to allow for non-copyable arguments, such
  as ``unique_ptr``.

* Some issues with the relaxed exception value handling were resolved.

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* Python classes as annotation types could prevent compilation.
  (Github issue #1887)

* Cython annotation types in Python files could lead to import failures
  with a "cython undefined" error.  Recognised types are now turned into strings.

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* Annotations could be parsed (and rejected) as types even with
  ``annotation_typing=False``.

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* PEP 489 support has been disabled by default to counter incompatibilities with
  import setups that try to reload or reinitialise modules.

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* Extension module initialisation follows
  `PEP 489 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0489/>`_ in CPython 3.5+, which
  resolves several differences with regard to normal Python modules.  This makes
  the global names ``__file__`` and ``__path__`` correctly available to module
  level code and improves the support for module-level relative imports.
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  (Github issues #1715, #1753, #1035)
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* Asynchronous generators (`PEP 525 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0525/>`_)
  and asynchronous comprehensions (`PEP 530 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0530/>`_)
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  have been implemented.  Note that async generators require finalisation support
  in order to allow for asynchronous operations during cleanup, which is only
  available in CPython 3.6+.  All other functionality has been backported as usual.

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* Variable annotations are now parsed according to
  `PEP 526 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0526/>`_.  Cython types (e.g.
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  ``cython.int``) are evaluated as C type declarations and everything else as Python
  types.  This can be disabled with the directive ``annotation_typing=False``.
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  Note that most complex PEP-484 style annotations are currently ignored.  This will
  change in future releases. (Github issue #1850)
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* Extension types (also in pure Python mode) can implement the normal special methods
  ``__eq__``, ``__lt__`` etc. for comparisons instead of the low-level ``__richcmp__``
  method.  (Github issue #690)

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* New decorator ``@cython.exceptval(x=None, check=False)`` that makes the signature
  declarations ``except x``, ``except? x`` and ``except *`` available to pure Python
  code.  Original patch by Antonio Cuni.  (Github issue #1653)

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* Signature annotations are now included in the signature docstring generated by
  the ``embedsignature`` directive.  Patch by Lisandro Dalcin (Github issue #1781).
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* The gdb support for Python code (``libpython.py``) was updated to the latest
  version in CPython 3.7 (git rev 5fe59f8).

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* The compiler tries to find a usable exception return value for cdef functions
  with ``except *`` if the returned type allows it.  Note that this feature is subject
  to safety limitations, so it is still better to provide an explicit declaration.

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* C functions can be assigned to function pointers with a compatible exception
  declaration, not only with exact matches.  A side-effect is that certain compatible
  signature overrides are now allowed and some more mismatches of exception signatures
  are now detected and rejected as errors that were not detected before.

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* The IPython/Jupyter magic integration has a new option ``%%cython --pgo`` for profile
  guided optimisation. It compiles the cell with PGO settings for the C compiler,
  executes it to generate a runtime profile, and then compiles it again using that
  profile for C compiler optimisation.  Currently only tested with gcc.

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* ``len(memoryview)`` can be used in nogil sections to get the size of the
  first dimension of a memory view (``shape[0]``). (Github issue #1733)

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* C++ classes can now contain (properly refcounted) Python objects.

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* NumPy dtype subarrays are now accessible through the C-API.
  Patch by Gerald Dalley (Github issue #245).

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* Resolves several issues with PyPy and uses faster async slots in PyPy3.
  Patch by Ronan Lamy (Github issues #1871, #1878).
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* Extension types that were cimported from other Cython modules could disagree
  about the order of fused cdef methods in their call table.  This could lead
  to wrong methods being called and potentially also crashes.  The fix required
  changes to the ordering of fused methods in the call table, which may break
  existing compiled modules that call fused cdef methods across module boundaries,
  if these methods were implemented in a different order than they were declared
  in the corresponding .pxd file. (Github issue #1873)

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* The exception state handling in generators and coroutines could lead to
  exceptions in the caller being lost if an exception was raised and handled
  inside of the coroutine when yielding. (Github issue #1731)

* Loops over ``range(enum)`` were not converted into C for-loops.  Note that it
  is still recommended to use an explicit cast to a C integer type in this case.
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* Error positions of names (e.g. variables) were incorrectly reported after the
  name and not at the beginning of the name.

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* Compile time ``DEF`` assignments were evaluated even when they occur inside of
  falsy ``IF`` blocks. (Github issue #1796)

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* Disabling the line tracing from a trace function could fail.
  Original patch by Dmitry Trofimov. (Github issue #1769)

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* Several issues with the Pythran integration were resolved.

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* abs(signed int) now returns a signed rather than unsigned int.
  (Github issue #1837)

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* Reading ``frame.f_locals`` of a Cython function (e.g. from a debugger or profiler
  could modify the module globals. (Github issue #1836)

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* Buffer type mismatches in the NumPy buffer support could leak a reference to the
  buffer owner.

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* Using the "is_f_contig" and "is_c_contig" memoryview methods together could leave
  one of them undeclared. (Github issue #1872)

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* Compilation failed if the for-in-range loop target was not a variable but a more
  complex expression, e.g. an item assignment. (Github issue #1831)

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* Compile time evaluations of (partially) constant f-strings could show incorrect
  results.

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* Escape sequences in raw f-strings (``fr'...'``) were resolved instead of passing
  them through as expected.

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* Some ref-counting issues in buffer error handling have been resolved.

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* Type declarations in signature annotations are now parsed according to
  `PEP 484 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/>`_
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  typing.  Only Cython types (e.g. ``cython.int``) and Python builtin types are
  currently considered as type declarations.  Everything else is ignored, but this
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  will change in a future Cython release.
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  (Github issue #1672)
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* The directive ``annotation_typing`` is now ``True`` by default, which enables
  parsing type declarations from annotations.

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* This release no longer supports Python 3.2.

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* ``cython.view.array`` was missing ``.__len__()``.

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* Extension types with a ``.pxd`` override for their ``__releasebuffer__`` slot
  (e.g. as provided by Cython for the Python ``array.array`` type) could leak
  a reference to the buffer owner on release, thus not freeing the memory.
  (Github issue #1638)

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* Auto-decoding failed in 0.26 for strings inside of C++ containers.
  (Github issue #1790)

* Compile error when inheriting from C++ container types.
  (Github issue #1788)

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* Invalid C code in generators (declaration after code).
  (Github issue #1801)

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* Arithmetic operations on ``const`` integer variables could generate invalid code.
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  (Github issue #1798)
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* Local variables with names of special Python methods failed to compile inside of
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  closures. (Github issue #1797)
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* Problem with indirect Emacs buffers in cython-mode.
  Patch by Martin Albrecht (Github issue #1743).

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* Extension types named ``result`` or ``PickleError`` generated invalid unpickling code.
  Patch by Jason Madden (Github issue #1786).

* Bazel integration failed to compile ``.py`` files.
  Patch by Guro Bokum (Github issue #1784).

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* Some include directories and dependencies were referenced with their absolute paths
  in the generated files despite lying within the project directory.

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* Failure to compile in Py3.7 due to a modified signature of ``_PyCFunctionFast()``

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Features added
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* Pythran can be used as a backend for evaluating NumPy array expressions.
  Patch by Adrien Guinet (Github issue #1607).

* cdef classes now support pickling by default when possible.
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  This can be disabled with the ``auto_pickle`` directive.
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* Speed up comparisons of strings if their hash value is available.
  Patch by Claudio Freire (Github issue #1571).

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* Support pyximport from zip files.
  Patch by Sergei Lebedev (Github issue #1485).
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* IPython magic now respects the ``__all__`` variable and ignores
  names with leading-underscore (like ``import *`` does).
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  Patch by Syrtis Major (Github issue #1625).
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* ``abs()`` is optimised for C complex numbers.
  Patch by da-woods (Github issue #1648).

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* The display of C lines in Cython tracebacks can now be enabled at runtime
  via ``import cython_runtime; cython_runtime.cline_in_traceback=True``.
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  The default has been changed to False.

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* The overhead of calling fused types generic functions was reduced.

* "cdef extern" include files are now also searched relative to the current file.
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  Patch by Jeroen Demeyer (Github issue #1654).
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* Optional optimization for re-aquiring the GIL, controlled by the
  `fast_gil` directive.

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Bugs fixed
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* Item lookup/assignment with a unicode character as index that is typed
  (explicitly or implicitly) as ``Py_UCS4`` or ``Py_UNICODE`` used the
  integer value instead of the Unicode string value. Code that relied on
  the previous behaviour now triggers a warning that can be disabled by
  applying an explicit cast. (Github issue #1602)

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* f-string processing was adapted to changes in PEP 498 and CPython 3.6.
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* Invalid C code when decoding from UTF-16(LE/BE) byte strings.
  (Github issue #1696)

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* Unicode escapes in 'ur' raw-unicode strings were not resolved in Py2 code.
  Original patch by Aaron Gallagher (Github issue #1594).

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* File paths of code objects are now relative.
  Original patch by Jelmer Vernooij (Github issue #1565).

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* Decorators of cdef class methods could be executed twice.
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  Patch by Jeroen Demeyer (Github issue #1724).
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* Dict iteration using the Py2 ``iter*`` methods failed in PyPy3.
  Patch by Armin Rigo (Github issue #1631).

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* Several warnings in the generated code are now suppressed.
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* The ``unraisable_tracebacks`` option now defaults to ``True``.
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* Coercion of C++ containers to Python is no longer automatic on attribute
  access (Github issue #1521).

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* Access to Python attributes of cimported modules without the corresponding
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  import is now a compile-time (rather than runtime) error.

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* Do not use special dll linkage for "cdef public" functions.
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  Patch by Jeroen Demeyer (Github issue #1687).
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* cdef/cpdef methods must match their declarations.  See Github Issue #1732.
  This is now a warning and will be an error in future releases.

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* Fixes several issues with C++ template deduction.

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* Fixes a issue with bound method type inference (Github issue #551).

* Fixes a bug with cascaded tuple assignment (Github issue #1523).

* Fixed or silenced many Clang warnings.

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* Fixes bug with powers of pure real complex numbers (Github issue #1538).

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Bugs fixed
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* Fixes a bug with ``isinstance(o, Exception)`` (Github issue #1496).

* Fixes bug with ``cython.view.array`` missing utility code in some cases
  (Github issue #1502).

Other changes
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* The distutils extension ``Cython.Distutils.build_ext`` has been reverted,
  temporarily, to be ``old_build_ext`` to give projects time to migrate.
  The new build_ext is available as ``new_build_ext``.


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* def/cpdef methods of cdef classes benefit from Cython's internal function
  implementation, which enables introspection and line profiling for them.
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* Calls to Python functions are faster, following the recent "FastCall"
  optimisations that Victor Stinner implemented for CPython 3.6.
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  See https://bugs.python.org/issue27128 and related issues.

* The new METH_FASTCALL calling convention for PyCFunctions is supported
  in CPython 3.6.  See https://bugs.python.org/issue27810
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* Initial support for using Cython modules in Pyston.  Patch by Daetalus.

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* Dynamic Python attributes are allowed on cdef classes if an attribute
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  ``cdef dict __dict__`` is declared in the class.  Patch by empyrical.
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* Cython implemented C++ classes can make direct calls to base class methods.
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  Patch by empyrical.
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* C++ classes can now have typedef members. STL containers updated with
  value_type.

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* New directive ``cython.no_gc`` to fully disable GC for a cdef class.
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  Patch by Claudio Freire.
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* Buffer variables are no longer excluded from ``locals()``.
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  Patch by da-woods.
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* Building f-strings is faster, especially when formatting C integers.
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* for-loop iteration over "std::string".

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* ``libc/math.pxd`` provides ``e`` and ``pi`` as alias constants to simplify
  usage as a drop-in replacement for Python's math module.

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* Speed up cython.inline().

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* Binary lshift operations with small constant Python integers are faster.

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* Some integer operations on Python long objects are faster in Python 2.7.

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* Support for the C++ ``typeid`` operator.

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* Support for bazel using a the pyx_library rule in //Tools:rules.bzl.

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* Division of complex numbers avoids overflow by using Smith's method.

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* Some function signatures in ``libc.math`` and ``numpy.pxd`` were incorrect.
  Patch by Michael Seifert.

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* The "%%cython" IPython/jupyter magic now defaults to the language level of
  the current jupyter kernel.  The language level can be set explicitly with
  "%%cython -2" or "%%cython -3".

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* The distutils extension ``Cython.Distutils.build_ext`` has now been updated
  to use cythonize which properly handles dependencies.  The old extension can
  still be found in ``Cython.Distutils.old_build_ext`` and is now deprecated.
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* ``directive_defaults`` is no longer available in ``Cython.Compiler.Options``,
  use ``get_directive_defaults()`` instead.

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* IPython cell magic was lacking a good way to enable Python 3 code semantics.
  It can now be used as "%%cython -3".
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  and CPython 3.5.2 that now requires the ``__aiter__()`` method of asynchronous
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  iterators to be a simple ``def`` method instead of an ``async def`` method.

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* Coroutines and generators were lacking the ``__module__`` special attribute.
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* C++ ``std::complex`` values failed to auto-convert from and to Python complex
  objects.

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* Namespaced C++ types could not be used as memory view types due to lack of
  name mangling.  Patch by Ivan Smirnov.

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* Assignments between identical C++ types that were declared with differently
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  typedefed template types could fail.

* Rebuilds could fail to evaluate dependency timestamps in C++ mode.
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  Patch by Ian Henriksen.
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* Macros defined in the ``distutils`` compiler option do not require values
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  anymore.  Patch by Ian Henriksen.
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* Minor fixes for MSVC, Cygwin and PyPy.
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* `PEP 498 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/>`_:
  Literal String Formatting (f-strings).
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* `PEP 515 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0515/>`_:
  Underscores as visual separators in number literals.
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* Parser was adapted to some minor syntax changes in Py3.6, e.g.
  https://bugs.python.org/issue9232

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* The embedded C code comments that show the original source code
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  can be discarded with the new directive ``emit_code_comments=False``.
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* Cpdef enums are now first-class iterable, callable types in Python.

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* Ctuples can now be declared in pure Python code.

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* Posix declarations for DLL loading and stdio extensions were added.
  Patch by Lars Buitinck.

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* The Py2-only builtins ``unicode()``, ``xrange()``, ``reduce()`` and
  ``long`` are now also available in compile time ``DEF`` expressions
  when compiling with Py3.

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* Exception type tests have slightly lower overhead.
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* @property syntax fully supported in cdef classes, old syntax deprecated.
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* C++ classes can now be declared with default template parameters.

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* C++ exceptions raised by overloaded C++ operators were not always
  handled.  Patch by Ian Henriksen.

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* C string literals were previously always stored as non-const global
  variables in the module.  They are now stored as global constants
  when possible, and otherwise as non-const C string literals in the
  generated code that uses them.  This improves compatibility with
  strict C compiler options and prevents non-const strings literals
  with the same content from being incorrectly merged.

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* Compile time evaluated ``str`` expressions (``DEF``) now behave in a
  more useful way by turning into Unicode strings when compiling under
  Python 3.  This allows using them as intermediate values in expressions.
  Previously, they always evaluated to bytes objects.

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* ``isinf()`` declarations in ``libc/math.pxd`` and ``numpy/math.pxd`` now
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* Changed mangling scheme in header files generated by ``cdef api``
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* Some missing C-API declarations were added.

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* Nested C++ templates could lead to unseparated ">>" characters being
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* Set literals now create all of their items before trying to add them
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  and some items are not hashable (or if hashing them has side effects,
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* Cython no longer generates the cross product of C functions for code
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  expected behaviour by most users and was previously inconsistent with
  other structured types like C arrays.  Code that really wants all type
  combinations can create the same fused memoryview type under different
  names and use those in the signature to make it clear which types are
  independent.

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* Syntax highlighting in ``cython-mode.el`` for Emacs no longer
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* The header line in the generated C files no longer contains the
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* The licensing implications on the generated code were clarified
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* Access to attributes of optimised builtin methods (e.g.
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* Build error under recent MacOS-X versions where ``isspace()`` could not be
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* Cython tries to undo the Python optimisationism of assigning a bound
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* Constant Python float values are cached.

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* String equality comparisons can use faster type specific code in
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* Some types that Cython provides internally, such as functions and
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* The type inference algorithm works more fine granular by taking the
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* A new script in ``bin/cythonize`` provides a command line frontend
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* ``set.add(a_tuple)`` and ``set.discard(a_tuple)`` failed with a
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* The metaclass of a Python class was not inherited from its parent
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  In Py2 compilation mode, a ``__metaclass__`` entry in the class
  dict will still take precedence if not using Py3 metaclass syntax,
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  recommended to use the explicit Py3 syntax to define metaclasses
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* The automatic C switch statement generation behaves more safely for
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* Some standard declarations were fixed or updated, including the previously
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  ``libc.math``.

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* "yield" wasn't supported in "return" value expressions.

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* The automatic signature documentation tries to preserve more semantics
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* A warning is emitted when negative literal indices are found inside of
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  fixing invalid code that might fail in the face of future compiler
  optimisations.

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  way of doing it because the declarations refer to a standard library
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* The C code for extension types is now generated in topological order
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* In C++ mode, the C99-only keyword ``restrict`` could accidentally be
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* New directives ``c_string_type`` and ``c_string_encoding`` to more easily
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* Access to non-cdef module globals and Python object attributes is faster.

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* Cascaded assignments of None values to extension type variables failed with
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* The ``__defaults__`` attribute was not writable for Cython implemented
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* Static methods without explicitly named positional arguments (e.g. having only
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* The declarations of ``frexp()`` and ``ldexp()`` in ``math.pxd`` were incorrect.

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* Calls to nested Python functions are resolved at compile time.

* Type inference works across nested functions.

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* In CPython 3.3, converting a Unicode character to the Py_UNICODE type could fail to raise an overflow for non-BMP characters that do not fit into a wchar_t on the current platform.

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* ``cythonize()`` gained a best effort compile mode that can be used to simply ignore .py files that fail to compile.

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* Cyclic imports at module init time did not work in Py3.

* The names of C++ destructors for template classes were built incorrectly.

* In pure mode, type casts in Cython syntax and the C ampersand operator are now rejected. Use the pure mode replacements instead.

* In pure mode, C type names and the sizeof() function are no longer recognised as such and can be used as normal Python names.

* The extended C level support for the CPython array type was declared too late to be used by user defined classes.

* C++ class nesting was broken.

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* Remove module docstring in no-docstring mode.

* Fix specialization for varargs function signatures.

* Fix several compiler crashes.

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* An experimental distutils script for compiling the CPython standard library was added as Tools/cystdlib.py.

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0.17.1 (2012-09-26)
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* A reference leak was fixed in the new dict iteration code when the loop target was not a plain variable but an unpacked tuple.

* Memory views did not handle the special case of a NULL buffer strides value, as allowed by PEP3118.

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0.17 (2012-09-01)
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* Alpha quality support for compiling and running Cython generated extension modules in PyPy (through cpyext). Note that this requires at least PyPy 1.9 and in many cases also adaptations in user code, especially to avoid borrowed references when no owned reference is being held directly in C space (a reference in a Python list or dict is not enough, for example). See the documentation on porting Cython code to PyPy.
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* "yield from" is supported (PEP 380) and a couple of minor problems with generators were fixed.

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* C++ STL container classes automatically coerce from and to the equivalent Python container types on typed assignments and casts. Note that the data in the containers is copied during this conversion.
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* C++ iterators can now be iterated over using "for x in cpp_container" whenever cpp_container has begin() and end() methods returning objects satisfying the iterator pattern (that is, it can be incremented, dereferenced, and compared (for non-equality)).
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* cdef classes can now have C++ class members (provided a zero-argument constructor exists)

* A new cpython.array standard cimport file allows to efficiently talk to the stdlib array.array data type in Python 2. Since CPython does not export an official C-API for this module, it receives special casing by the compiler in order to avoid setup overhead on user side. In Python 3, both buffers and memory views on the array type already worked out of the box with earlier versions of Cython due to the native support for the buffer interface in the Py3 array module.

* Fast dict iteration is now enabled optimistically also for untyped variables when the common iteration methods are used.

* The unicode string processing code was adapted for the upcoming CPython 3.3 (PEP 393, new Unicode buffer layout).

* Buffer arguments and memory view arguments in Python functions can be declared "not None" to raise a TypeError on None input.

* c(p)def functions in pure mode can specify their return type with "@cython.returns()".

* Automatic dispatch for fused functions with memoryview arguments

* Support newaxis indexing for memoryviews

* Support decorators for fused functions

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* Old-style Py2 imports did not work reliably in Python 3.x and were broken in Python 3.3. Regardless of this fix, it's generally best to be explicit about relative and global imports in Cython code because old-style imports have a higher overhead. To this end, "from __future__ import absolute_import" is supported in Python/Cython 2.x code now (previous versions of Cython already used it when compiling Python 3 code).

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* Stricter constraints on the "inline" and "final" modifiers. If your code does not compile due to this change, chances are these modifiers were previously being ignored by the compiler and can be removed without any performance regression.
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* Exceptions are always instantiated while raising them (as in Python), instead of risking to instantiate them in potentially unsafe situations when they need to be handled or otherwise processed.

* locals() properly ignores names that do not have Python compatible types (including automatically inferred types).

* Some garbage collection issues of memory views were fixed.

* numpy.pxd compiles in Python 3 mode.

* Several C compiler warnings were fixed.

* Several bugs related to memoryviews and fused types were fixed.

* Several bug-fixes and improvements related to cythonize(), including ccache-style caching.

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* libc.string provides a convenience declaration for const uchar in addition to const char.

* User declared char* types are now recognised as such and auto-coerce to and from Python bytes strings.

* callable() and next() compile to more efficient C code.

* list.append() is faster on average.

* Modules generated by @cython.inline() are written into the directory pointed to by the environment variable CYTHON_CACHE_DIR if set.


0.16 (2012-04-21)
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Features added
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* Enhancements to Cython's function type (support for weak references, default arguments, code objects, dynamic attributes, classmethods, staticmethods, and more)

* Fused Types - Template-like support for functions and methods CEP 522 (docs)

* Typed views on memory - Support for efficient direct and indirect buffers (indexing, slicing, transposing, ...) CEP 517 (docs)

* super() without arguments

* Final cdef methods (which translate into direct calls on known instances)

Bugs fixed
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* fix alignment handling for record types in buffer support

Other changes
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* support default arguments for closures

* search sys.path for pxd files

* support C++ template casting

* faster traceback building and faster generator termination

* support inplace operators on indexed buffers

* allow nested prange sections


0.15.1 (2011-09-19)
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Bugs fixed
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Other changes
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0.15 (2011-08-05)
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Features added
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* Generators (yield) - Cython has full support for generators, generator expressions and PEP 342 coroutines.

* The nonlocal keyword is supported.

* Re-acquiring the gil: with gil - works as expected within a nogil context.

* OpenMP support: prange.

* Control flow analysis prunes dead code and emits warnings and errors about uninitialised variables.

* Debugger command cy set to assign values of expressions to Cython variables and cy exec counterpart $cy_eval().

* Exception chaining PEP 3134.

* Relative imports PEP 328.

* Improved pure syntax including cython.cclass, cython.cfunc, and cython.ccall.

* The with statement has its own dedicated and faster C implementation.

* Support for del.

* Boundschecking directives implemented for builtin Python sequence types.

* Several updates and additions to the shipped standard library .pxd files.

* Forward declaration of types is no longer required for circular references.

Bugs fixed
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Other changes
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* Uninitialized variables are no longer initialized to None and accessing them has the same semantics as standard Python.

* globals() now returns a read-only dict of the Cython module's globals, rather than the globals of the first non-Cython module in the stack

* Many C++ exceptions are now special cased to give closer Python counterparts. This means that except+ functions that formerly raised generic RuntimeErrors may raise something else such as ArithmeticError.

* The inlined generator expressions (introduced in Cython 0.13) were disabled in favour of full generator expression support. This breaks code that previously used them inside of cdef functions (usage in def functions continues to work) and induces a performance regression for cases that continue to work but that were previously inlined. We hope to reinstate this feature in the near future.


0.14.1 (2011-02-04)
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Features added
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* The gdb debugging support was extended to include all major Cython features, including closures.

* raise MemoryError() is now safe to use as Cython replaces it with the correct C-API call.

Bugs fixed
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Other changes
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* Decorators on special methods of cdef classes now raise a compile time error rather than being ignored.

* In Python 3 language level mode (-3 option), the 'str' type is now mapped to 'unicode', so that cdef str s declares a Unicode string even when running in Python 2.


0.14 (2010-12-14)
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Features added
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* Python classes can now be nested and receive a proper closure at definition time.

* Redefinition is supported for Python functions, even within the same scope.

* Lambda expressions are supported in class bodies and at the module level.

* Metaclasses are supported for Python classes, both in Python 2 and Python 3 syntax. The Python 3 syntax (using a keyword argument in the type declaration) is preferred and optimised at compile time.

* "final" extension classes prevent inheritance in Python space. This feature is available through the new "cython.final" decorator. In the future, these classes may receive further optimisations.

* "internal" extension classes do not show up in the module dictionary. This feature is available through the new "cython.internal" decorator.

* Extension type inheritance from builtin types, such as "cdef class MyUnicode(unicode)", now works without further external type redeclarations (which are also strongly discouraged now and continue to issue a warning).

* GDB support. http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/debugging.html

* A new build system with support for inline distutils directives, correct dependency tracking, and parallel compilation. http://wiki.cython.org/enhancements/distutils_preprocessing

* Support for dynamic compilation at runtime via the new cython.inline function and cython.compile decorator. http://wiki.cython.org/enhancements/inline

* "nogil" blocks are supported when compiling pure Python code by writing "with cython.nogil".

* Iterating over arbitrary pointer types is now supported, as is an optimized version of the in operator, e.g. x in ptr[a:b].

Bugs fixed
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* In parallel assignments, the right side was evaluated in reverse order in 0.13. This could result in errors if it had side effects (e.g. function calls).

* In some cases, methods of builtin types would raise a SystemError instead of an AttributeError when called on None.

Other changes
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* Constant tuples are now cached over the lifetime of an extension module, just like CPython does. Constant argument tuples of Python function calls are also cached.

* Closures have tightened to include exactly the names used in the inner functions and classes. Previously, they held the complete locals of the defining function.

* The builtin "next()" function in Python 2.6 and later is now implemented internally and therefore available in all Python versions. This makes it the preferred and portable way of manually advancing an iterator.

* In addition to the previously supported inlined generator expressions in 0.13, "sorted(genexpr)" can now be used as well. Typing issues were fixed in "sum(genexpr)" that could lead to invalid C code being generated. Other known issues with inlined generator expressions were also fixed that make upgrading to 0.14 a strong recommendation for code that uses them. Note that general generators and generator expressions continue to be not supported.

* Inplace arithmetic operators now respect the cdivision directive and are supported for complex types.

* Typing a variable as type "complex" previously gave it the Python object type. It now uses the appropriate C/C++ double complex type. A side-effect is that assignments and typed function parameters now accept anything that Python can coerce to a complex, including integers and floats, and not only complex instances.

* Large integer literals pass through the compiler in a safer way. To prevent truncation in C code, non 32-bit literals are turned into Python objects if not used in a C context. This context can either be given by a clear C literal suffix such as "UL" or "LL" (or "L" in Python 3 code), or it can be an assignment to a typed variable or a typed function argument, in which case it is up to the user to take care of a sufficiently large value space of the target.

* Python functions are declared in the order they appear in the file, rather than all being created at module creation time. This is consistent with Python and needed to support, for example, conditional or repeated declarations of functions. In the face of circular imports this may cause code to break, so a new --disable-function-redefinition flag was added to revert to the old behavior. This flag will be removed in a future release, so should only be used as a stopgap until old code can be fixed.


0.13 (2010-08-25)
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* Closures are fully supported for Python functions. Cython supports inner functions and lambda expressions. Generators and generator expressions are not supported in this release.

* Proper C++ support. Cython knows about C++ classes, templates and overloaded function signatures, so that Cython code can interact with them in a straight forward way.

* Type inference is enabled by default for safe C types (e.g. double, bint, C++ classes) and known extension types. This reduces the need for explicit type declarations and can improve the performance of untyped code in some cases. There is also a verbose compile mode for testing the impact on user code.

* Cython's for-in-loop can iterate over C arrays and sliced pointers. The type of the loop variable will be inferred automatically in this case.

* The Py_UNICODE integer type for Unicode code points is fully supported, including for-loops and 'in' tests on unicode strings. It coerces from and to single character unicode strings. Note that untyped for-loop variables will automatically be inferred as Py_UNICODE when iterating over a unicode string. In most cases, this will be much more efficient than yielding sliced string objects, but can also have a negative performance impact when the variable is used in a Python context multiple times, so that it needs to coerce to a unicode string object more than once. If this happens, typing the loop variable as unicode or object will help.

* The built-in functions any(), all(), sum(), list(), set() and dict() are inlined as plain for loops when called on generator expressions. Note that generator expressions are not generally supported apart from this feature. Also, tuple(genexpr) is not currently supported - use tuple([listcomp]) instead.

* More shipped standard library declarations. The python_* and stdlib/stdio .pxd files have been deprecated in favor of clib.* and cpython[.*] and may get removed in a future release.

* Pure Python mode no longer disallows non-Python keywords like 'cdef', 'include' or 'cimport'. It also no longer recognises syntax extensions like the for-from loop.

* Parsing has improved for Python 3 syntax in Python code, although not all features are correctly supported. The missing Python 3 features are being worked on for the next release.

* from __future__ import print_function is supported in Python 2.6 and later. Note that there is currently no emulation for earlier Python versions, so code that uses print() with this future import will require at least Python 2.6.

* New compiler directive language_level (valid values: 2 or 3) with corresponding command line options -2 and -3 requests source code compatibility with Python 2.x or Python 3.x respectively. Language level 3 currently enforces unicode literals for unprefixed string literals, enables the print function (requires Python 2.6 or later) and keeps loop variables in list comprehensions from leaking.

* Loop variables in set/dict comprehensions no longer leak into the surrounding scope (following Python 2.7). List comprehensions are unchanged in language level 2.

* print >> stream

Bugs fixed
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Other changes
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* The availability of type inference by default means that Cython will also infer the type of pointers on assignments. Previously, code like this::

     cdef char* s = ...
     untyped_variable = s

  would convert the char* to a Python bytes string and assign that. This is no longer the case and no coercion will happen in the example above. The correct way of doing this is through an explicit cast or by typing the target variable, i.e.

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     cdef char* s = ...
     untyped_variable1 = <bytes>s
     untyped_variable2 = <object>s

     cdef object py_object = s
     cdef bytes  bytes_string = s

* bool is no longer a valid type name by default. The problem is that it's not clear whether bool should refer to the Python type or the C++ type, and expecting one and finding the other has already led to several hard-to-find bugs. Both types are available for importing: you can use from cpython cimport bool for the Python bool type, and from libcpp cimport bool for the C++ type. bool is still a valid object by default, so one can still write bool(x).

* ``__getsegcount__`` is now correctly typed to take a ``Py_size_t*`` rather than an ``int*``.


0.12.1 (2010-02-02)
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Features added
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* Type inference improvements.

  * There have been several bug fixes and improvements to the type inferencer.

  * Notably, there is now a "safe" mode enabled by setting the infer_types directive to None. (The None here refers to the "default" mode, which will be the default in 0.13.) This safe mode limits inference to Python object types and C doubles, which should speed up execution without affecting any semantics such as integer overflow behavior like infer_types=True might. There is also an infer_types.verbose option which allows one to see what types are inferred.

* The boundscheck directive works for lists and tuples as well as buffers.

* len(s) and s.decode("encoding") are efficiently supported for char* s.

* Cython's INLINE macro has been renamed to CYTHON_INLINE to reduce conflict and has better support for the MSVC compiler on Windows. It is no longer clobbered if externally defined.

* Revision history is now omitted from the source package, resulting in a 85% size reduction. Running make repo will download the history and turn the directory into a complete Mercurial working repository.

* Cython modules don't need to be recompiled when the size of an external type grows. (A warning, rather than an error, is produced.) This should be helpful for binary distributions relying on NumPy.

Bugs fixed
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* Several other bugs and minor improvements have been made. This release should be fully backwards compatible with 0.12.

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0.12 (2009-11-23)
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Features added
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* Type inference with the infer_types directive

* Seamless C++ complex support

* Fast extension type instantiation using the normal Python meme obj = MyType.__new__(MyType)

* Improved support for Py3.1

* Cython now runs under Python 3.x using the 2to3 tool

* unittest support for doctests in Cython modules

* Optimised handling of C strings (char*): for c in cstring[2:50] and cstring.decode()

* Looping over c pointers: for i in intptr[:50].

* pyximport improvements

* cython_freeze improvements

Bugs fixed
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* Many bug fixes

Other changes
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* Many other optimisation, e.g. enumerate() loops, parallel swap assignments (a,b = b,a), and unicode.encode()

* More complete numpy.pxd


0.11.2 (2009-05-20)
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* There's now native complex floating point support! C99 complex will be used if complex.h is included, otherwise explicit complex arithmetic working on all C compilers is used. [Robert Bradshaw]

  ::

      cdef double complex a = 1 + 0.3j
      cdef np.ndarray[np.complex128_t, ndim=2] arr = \
         np.zeros(10, np.complex128)

* Cython can now generate a main()-method for embedding of the Python interpreter into an executable (see #289) [Robert Bradshaw]

* @wraparound directive (another way to disable arr[idx] for negative idx) [Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

* Correct support for NumPy record dtypes with different alignments, and "cdef packed struct" support [Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

* @callspec directive, allowing custom calling convention macros [Lisandro Dalcin]

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* Bug fixes and smaller improvements. For the full list, see [1].