[Pyrex] Cython development

Chris Mellon arkanes at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 16:20:02 CET 2008


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
>  > Then put a clear warning into the docs/FAQ: "the C files are generated, please
>  > ignore them when reading the source".
>
>  Pyrex already puts a note at the top of the .c file
>  indicating that it was generated. I could perhaps
>  enhance it to include a warning against editing by
>  hand, although I think to most people it would be
>  fairly obvious from the appearance of the code that
>  you're not meant to do that!
>
>  --


And really, as generated C source goes, Pyrex/Cython produce some of
the easiest to read I've ever seen. The inclusion of the source (with
line numbers and context!) for each chunk of the generated C code is
great.



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