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Cython Changelog
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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 `__all__` variable.  Also skips
  leading-underscore values (like `import *`).
  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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* cdef classes now support pickling by default when possible.

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

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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 match recent 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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* The `unraisable_tracebacks` 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 comported modules without the corresponding
  import is now a compile-time (rather than runtime) error.

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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).

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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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Features added
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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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  Implementation sponsored by Turbostream (www.turbostream-cfd.com).
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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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* Follow a recent change in `PEP 492 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/>`_
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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: Literal String Formatting (f-strings).
  Original patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
  https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/

* PEP 515: Underscores as visual separators in number literals.
  https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0515/

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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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  This fixes ticket 868.
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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
  reflect the actual tristate ``int`` return value instead of using ``bint``.

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* Literal assignments to ctuples avoid Python tuple round-trips in some
  more corner cases.

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* Iteration over ``dict(...).items()`` failed to get optimised when dict
  arguments included keyword arguments.

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* cProfile now correctly profiles cpdef functions and methods.

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* Compile errors and warnings in integer type conversion code.  This fixes
  ticket 877.  Patches by Christian Neukirchen, Nikolaus Rath, Ian Henriksen.
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* Reference leak when "*args" argument was reassigned in closures.

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* Truth-testing Unicode strings could waste time and memory in Py3.3+.

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* Return values of async functions could be ignored and replaced by ``None``.

* Compiler crash in CPython 3.6.

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* Fix prange() to behave identically to range().  The end condition was
  miscalculated when the range was not exactly divisible by the step.

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* Optimised ``all(genexpr)``/``any(genexpr)`` calls could warn about unused
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Bugs fixed
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* Memory leak when calling Python functions in PyPy.

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* Compilation problem with MSVC in C99-ish mode.

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* Invalid C code for some builtin methods.  This fixes ticket 856 again.

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* Incorrect C code in helper functions for PyLong conversion and string
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  decoding.  This fixes ticket 863, ticket 864 and ticket 865.
  Original patch by Nikolaus Rath.
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* Large folded or inserted integer constants could use too small C
  integer types and thus trigger a value wrap-around.

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* The coroutine and generator types of Cython now also register directly
  with the ``Coroutine`` and ``Generator`` ABCs in the ``backports_abc``
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* Compiler crash when analysing some optimised expressions.

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* Coverage plugin was adapted to coverage.py 4.0 beta 2.

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* C++ destructor calls could fail when '&' operator is overwritten.

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* Incorrect C literal generation for large integers in compile-time
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* Byte string constants could end up as Unicode strings when originating
  from compile-time evaluated DEF expressions.

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* Invalid C code when caching known builtin methods.
  This fixes ticket 860.

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* ``ino_t`` in ``posix.types`` was not declared as ``unsigned``.

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* Declarations in ``libcpp/memory.pxd`` were missing ``operator!()``.
  Patch by Leo Razoumov.

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* Static cdef methods can now be declared in .pxd files.

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* Invalid C code for generators.  This fixes ticket 858.

* Invalid C code for some builtin methods.  This fixes ticket 856.

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* Invalid C code for unused local buffer variables.
  This fixes ticket 154.

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* Test failures on 32bit systems.  This fixes ticket 857.

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* Code that uses ``from xyz import *`` and global C struct/union/array
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  variables could fail to compile due to missing helper functions.
  This fixes ticket 851.

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* Misnamed PEP 492 coroutine property ``cr_yieldfrom`` renamed to
  ``cr_await`` to match CPython.
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* Missing deallocation code for C++ object attributes in certain
  extension class hierarchies.

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* Crash when async coroutine was not awaited.

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* Compiler crash on ``yield`` in signature annotations and default
  argument values.  Both are forbidden now.

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* Compiler crash on certain constructs in ``finally`` clauses.

* Cython failed to build when CPython's pgen is installed.

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* PEP 492 (async/await) was implemented.
  See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492/

* PEP 448 (Additional Unpacking Generalizations) was implemented.
  See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0448/

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* Support for coverage.py 4.0+ can be enabled by adding the plugin
  "Cython.Coverage" to the ".coveragerc" config file.

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* Annotated HTML source pages can integrate (XML) coverage reports.

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* Tracing is supported in ``nogil`` functions/sections and module init code.
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* When generators are used in a Cython module and the module imports the
  modules "inspect" and/or "asyncio", Cython enables interoperability by
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  generator and coroutine types. This can be disabled by C compiling the
  module with "-D CYTHON_PATCH_ASYNCIO=0" or "-D CYTHON_PATCH_INSPECT=0"

* When generators or coroutines are used in a Cython module, their types
  are registered with the ``Generator`` and ``Coroutine`` ABCs in the
  ``collections`` or ``collections.abc`` stdlib module at import time to
  enable interoperability with code that needs to detect and process Python
  generators/coroutines.  These ABCs were added in CPython 3.5 and are
  available for older Python versions through the ``backports_abc`` module
  on PyPI.  See https://bugs.python.org/issue24018
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* Adding/subtracting/dividing/modulus and equality comparisons with
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* Binary and/or/xor/rshift operations with small constant Python integers
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* When called on generator expressions, the builtins ``all()``, ``any()``,
  ``dict()``, ``list()``, ``set()``, ``sorted()`` and ``unicode.join()``
  avoid the generator iteration overhead by inlining a part of their
  functionality into the for-loop.
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* Keyword argument dicts are no longer copied on function entry when they
  are not being used or only passed through to other function calls (e.g.
  in wrapper functions).

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* The ``PyTypeObject`` declaration in ``cpython.object`` was extended.

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* The builtin ``type`` type is now declared as PyTypeObject in source,
  allowing for extern functions taking type parameters to have the correct
  C signatures.  Note that this might break code that uses ``type`` just
  for passing around Python types in typed variables.  Removing the type
  declaration provides a backwards compatible fix.
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* ``wraparound()`` and ``boundscheck()`` are available as no-ops in pure
  Python mode.

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* Const iterators were added to the provided C++ STL declarations.

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* Smart pointers were added to the provided C++ STL declarations.
  Patch by Daniel Filonik.

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* ``NULL`` is allowed as default argument when embedding signatures.
  This fixes ticket 843.

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* When compiling with ``--embed``, the internal module name is changed to
  ``__main__`` to allow arbitrary program names, including those that would
  be invalid for modules.  Note that this prevents reuse of the generated
  C code as an importable module.

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* External C++ classes that overload the assignment operator can be used.
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* Support operator bool() for C++ classes so they can be used in if statements.

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* Calling "yield from" from Python on a Cython generator that returned a
  value triggered a crash in CPython.  This is now being worked around.
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* Language level 3 did not enable true division (a.k.a. float division)
  for integer operands.
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* Functions with fused argument types that included a generic 'object'
  fallback could end up using that fallback also for other explicitly
  listed object types.

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* Relative cimports could accidentally fall back to trying an absolute
  cimport on failure.
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* The result of calling a C struct constructor no longer requires an
  intermediate assignment when coercing to a Python dict.
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* C++ exception declarations with mapping functions could fail to compile
  when pre-declared in .pxd files.
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* ``cpdef void`` methods are now permitted.

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* ``abs(cint)`` could fail to compile in MSVC and used sub-optimal code
  in C++.  Patch by David Vierra, original patch by Michael Enßlin.
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* Buffer index calculations using index variables with small C integer
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  types could overflow for large buffer sizes.
  Original patch by David Vierra.
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* C unions use a saner way to coerce from and to Python dicts.

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* When compiling a module ``foo.pyx``, the directories in ``sys.path``
  are no longer searched when looking for ``foo.pxd``.
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  Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.

* Memory leaks in the embedding main function were fixed.
  Original patch by Michael Enßlin.

* Some complex Python expressions could fail to compile inside of finally
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* Fixed type errors in conversion enum types to/from Python.  Note that
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* Changed mangling scheme in header files generated by ``cdef api``
  declarations.
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* Installation under CPython 3.3+ no longer requires a pass of the
  2to3 tool.  This also makes it possible to run Cython in Python
  3.3+ from a source checkout without installing it first.
  Patch by Petr Viktorin.

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* ``jedi-typer.py`` (in ``Tools/``) was extended and renamed to
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  requires Jedi 0.9.  Patch by Tzer-jen Wei.
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* C++ exception declarations with mapping functions could fail to compile when
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* When compiling multiple modules, external library dependencies could leak
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* PEP 479: turn accidental StopIteration exceptions that exit generators
  into a RuntimeError, activated with future import "generator_stop".
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* The ``logaddexp`` family of functions in ``numpy.math`` now has correct
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* In Py2.6/7 and Py3.2, simple Cython memory views could accidentally be
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  bug when copying data from them, thus leading to data corruption.
  See CPython issues 12834 and 23349.

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* Crash when assigning a C value to both a Python and C target at the same time.

* Automatic coercion from C++ strings to ``str`` generated incomplete code that
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* Functions in ``libcpp.cast`` are now declared as ``nogil``.

* Some missing C-API declarations were added.

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* ``PySlice_*()`` C-API functions are available from the ``cpython.slice``
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* To fix a name collision and to reflect availability on host platforms,
  standard C declarations [ clock(), time(), struct tm and tm* functions ]
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* Taking a ``char*`` from a temporary Python string object is safer
  in more cases and can be done inside of non-trivial expressions,
  including arguments of a function call.  A compile time error
  is raised only when such a pointer is assigned to a variable and
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* IPython magic support is now available directly from Cython with
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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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  to those of the parent type without having Python object attributes
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  types could fail with type errors if the result value type was incompatible
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  etc. was not deterministic, thus leading to high code churn.

* Type inference could fail to deduce C enum types.

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* Cython tries to undo the Python optimisationism of assigning a bound
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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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  class(es).  It is now extracted from the list of base classes if not
  provided explicitly using the Py3 ``metaclass`` keyword argument.
  In Py2 compilation mode, a ``__metaclass__`` entry in the class
  dict will still take precedence if not using Py3 metaclass syntax,
  but only *after* creating the class dict (which may have been done
  by a metaclass of a base class, see PEP 3115).  It is generally
  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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  generates a 'default' clause to avoid C compiler warnings about
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* Some standard declarations were fixed or updated, including the previously
  incorrect declaration of ``PyBuffer_FillInfo()`` and some missing bits in
  ``libc.math``.

* Heap allocated subtypes of ``type`` used the wrong base type struct at the
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* Using the "bint" type in memory views lead to unexpected results.
  It is now an error.

* Assignments to global/closure variables could catch them in an illegal state
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* Docstrings that directly follow a public/readonly attribute declaration
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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
  a code section that disables ``wraparound`` handling.  This helps with
  fixing invalid code that might fail in the face of future compiler
  optimisations.

* Constant folding for boolean expressions (and/or) was improved.

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* Added a build_dir option to cythonize() which allows one to place
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  (added in 0.19) are no longer available directly from the "cpython"
  namespace, but only from "cpython.datetime". This is the correct
  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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* The ``memoryview`` type name no longer shows up in the module dict of
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* Regression in 0.19 that rejected valid C expressions from being used
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* In C++ mode, the C99-only keyword ``restrict`` could accidentally be
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* Testing large (> int) C integer values for their truth value could fail
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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.

* ``Py_UNICODE*`` coerces from and to Python unicode strings.  This is
  helpful when talking to Windows APIs, which use compatible wchar_t
  arrays for strings.  Note that the ``Py_UNICODE`` type is otherwise
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  instances for an extension type, thus avoiding the costly allocation step if
  possible. This can speed up object instantiation by 20-30% in suitable
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* Fast extension type instantiation using the ``Type.__new__(Type)`` idiom has
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  protocol is used instead of the ``getslice`` protocol (especially in Python 3),
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  a bit faster in some cases, e.g. for constant bounds.  This fixes trac ticket 636.

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* The ``__defaults__`` attribute was not writable for Cython implemented
  functions.

* Default values of keyword-only arguments showed up in ``__defaults__`` instead
  of ``__kwdefaults__`` (which was not implemented).  Both are available for
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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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  arithmetic with C ints overflow.  This has a modest performance penalty, but
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* Calls to nested Python functions are resolved at compile time.

* Type inference works across nested functions.

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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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* 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.

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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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* 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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* "yield from" is supported (PEP 380) and a couple of minor problems with generators were fixed.

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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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* 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.


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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)

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* fix alignment handling for record types in buffer support

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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


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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.

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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.


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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.

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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.


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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].

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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.

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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.


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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
----------

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.

  ::

     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)
===================

Features added
--------------

* 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
----------

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

Other changes
-------------


0.12 (2009-11-23)
=================

Features added
--------------

* 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
----------

* Many bug fixes

Other changes
-------------

* 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)
===================

Features added
--------------

* 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]

Bugs fixed
----------

Other changes
-------------

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