[Pyrex] cimport: include path and standard headers

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 9:47 AM, Alexander Belchenko wrote:

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> David McNab пишет:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to update the cimport  
>> mechanism
>> so that it searches an additional directory such
>> as /usr/share/pyrex/include (or on windows, something like c: 
>> \Python2.x
>> \pyrex\include).
>>
>> This would allow for Pyrex to be distributed with a set of handy
>> headers, such as 'Python.pxd', 'string.pxd', 'stdio.pxd' etc.
>>
>> As I hand-write a lot of 'cdef extern from...' blocks, I'm  
>> wondering if
>> we've got dozens of other folks doing the same. It makes about as  
>> much
>> sense as the world of C developers all writing their own version of
>> stdio.h, or Python developers all writing their own versions of  
>> 'sys',
>> 'os' etc.
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> Nice idea. +1.

I like this idea too, but would like to make it explicit to import  
things. As a start, SAGE is distributed with .pxi files for (almost?)  
the entire Python C/API.

- Robert

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