[Pyrex] Pyrex doesn't seem to recognize param type.

[tarkawebfoot at charter.net]

Hi all,

I'm trying to wrap the decNumber library with Pyrex and have had pretty good success so far. There's only one last problem showing up.

I have an extension class defined like this:

cdef class oetl_decimal:
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    cdef void set_buffer(self, decNumber *buffer):
        if buffer[0].digits > self.context.ctx.digits:
            raise InvalidOperation("Context precision is too low to set buffer.")
        decNumberRescale(self.buffer, buffer, self.context.decScale, &self.context.ctx)
        self.context.c_assert()
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    def normalized(self):
        cdef decNumber *tmp
        tmp = <decNumber *> alloca(128)
        decNumberNormalize(tmp, self.buffer, &self.context.ctx)
        self.context.c_assert()
        res = oetl_decimal(self.context)
        res.set_buffer(tmp)
        return res

When I compile, Pyrex complains in the call to res.set_buffer(tmp) above that it can't convert a decNumber (*) to a python object. But tmp is cdef'ed as a decNumber * and set_buffer is cdef'ed to accept a decNumber * as its second parameter.

Am I doing something stupid and obvious here? I've tried a couple of things, including looking at the generated code (which looks OK to me), and discovered that Pyrex seems to know tmp is a decNumber *. It doesn't seem to realize the set_buffer's second argument is a decNumber *.

Any help appreciated

Brian