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cython
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Dr Alex Meakins
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Added basic ctuple documentation.
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@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ You can read more about them in :ref:`extension-types`.
Types
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Types
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Cython uses the normal C syntax for C types, including pointers. It provides
all the standard C types, namely ``char``, ``short``, ``int``, ``long``,
``long long`` as well as their ``unsigned`` versions, e.g. ``unsigned int``.
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@@ -148,6 +151,13 @@ typing and instead interpreted as C ``int``, ``long``, and ``float``
respectively, as statically typing variables with these Python
types has zero advantages.
Cython provides an accelerated and typed equivalent of a Python tuple.
A ``ctuple`` is assembled from any valid C types, for example::
cdef (double, int) bar
They can be used like a Python tuple, including as function arguments and as return types.
While these C types can be vastly faster, they have C semantics.
Specifically, the integer types overflow
and the C ``float`` type only has 32 bits of precision
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@@ -208,6 +218,11 @@ using normal C declaration syntax. For example,::
cdef int eggs(unsigned long l, float f):
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''ctuples'' may also be used::
cdef (int, float) chips((long, long, double) t):
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When a parameter of a Python function is declared to have a C data type, it is
passed in as a Python object and automatically converted to a C value, if
possible. In other words, the definition of ``spam`` above is equivalent to
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