[Pyrex] Implicit conversions failing

[Greg Ewing]

> I'm seeing cases where pyrex-generated code is failing to implicitly
> convert between Python long objects and C long ints, eg:
>
>  def pythonFunc(somelong):
>     result = cFunc(somelong)
>
>  cdef void someCfunc(long fred):
>     pythonFunc(fred)
>
> Is it actually poor Pyrex coding practice to expect these implicit
> conversions to happen properly?

No, they certainly should happen automatically.

Can you give me a short example which actually generates
incorrect C code? I tried the two you gave, and I can't
see anything wrong with the generated code.

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