Am 06/04/2008 11:59 PM schrieb Dag Sverre Seljebotn:
Johannes Wienke wrote:
Am 06/04/2008 07:47 PM schrieb Stefan Behnel:
If you *really* want None, then you can use something like this:

    cdef inline stringOrNone(char* value):
         if value is NULL: return None
         return value
That's exactly what I'm doing now but that's error-prone as you have to
do this manually and can forget it.

(Sorry about telling you to reread, I can see that you commented on it already.)

Well, in my mind, this is a reason for supporting Stefan in removing auto-coercion of char* to Python strings altogether (that is suggested once down in those unicode discussion threads, right Stefan?). Then you would get a nice compiler error when you forget it, and it won't be error-prone.

Now with the context of encoding issues I can see the point. Things you don't have to think of to often as Java developer. ;) Removing the conversion then would be a good idea. Compiler warnings are of course the best bug prevention. On the other hand this really handy... Hard to decide.

- Johannes

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