[Pyrex] Re: Pyrex and C++

[Greg Ewing]

Mike Rovner <mike at nospam.com>:

> There is nothing (and I doubt will ever be) like that in python,
> so what are we talking about?

Pyrex currently generates code which casts lvalues, e.g.

   MyExtensionType *p;
   (PyObject *)p = some_pyobject_expr;

which is apparently illegal in C++.

> Ah, compiling pyrex output with c++ - AFAIK no c++ compiler is going
> to drop c mode out?

If only that were true! But unfortunately C++ is not quite a
superset of C...


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