[Pyrex] C methods in extension types

[Greg Ewing]

Francesc Alted <falted at openlc.org>:

> A Dimecres 08 Octubre 2003 21:05, Andreas Kostyrka va escriure:
> >
> > def __next__(self):
> >     cdef Table mytab
> >     mytab = self._table
> >     self.recout = mytab._read_records(self.nrowsread, ...)
> >
> > How's that?
> 
> That works just fine... but why?

It works because the declaration of the local variable mytab
lets Pyrex know it's a table. But it's more efficient to
declare the attribute itself as a Table in the first place,
because Python attribute lookups will be used to access it
otherwise.

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