On Dec 17, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Lisandro Dalcín wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Stefan Behnel <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>
>> No need to silence a warning that we generate ourselves.
>
> Unless the warning is pointless, as in this very specific use case.

This could also happen with a system install, where the first person  
to run Cython doesn't have the required permissions to write the pickle.

> PS: It could seem that I'm worrying too much about this, but I want
> this feature to function really well. This is really nice way to
> easily "upgrade"/"downgrade" your Cython version for building specific
> projects... This is going to be important if Cython ever gets its way
> to Python's stdlib. It is also important if you are using some Linux
> distro where Cython-0.11 is in the system install, but you need to
> build the -dev copy of some Cython-based project that requires 0.12...
> Then a user can download the big 4.3MB Cython-0.12.zip (or a lite,
> striped version with 290KB like the one I'm trying to do) and get the
> -dev code cythonized.

I think this is a worthy usecase.

> Creating lexicon...
> Done (0.08 seconds)

Another data point:

$ touch empty.pyx
$ time python cython.py empty.pyx
Creating lexicon...
Done (0.04 seconds)
Pickling lexicon...
Done (0.01 seconds)

real    0m0.353s
user    0m0.279s
sys     0m0.071s

cython-devel$ time python cython.py empty.pyx

real    0m0.321s
user    0m0.243s
sys     0m0.073s

Really, that's hardly any savings at all. Maybe at one point this was  
really expensive? In any case, I think it might make more sense to  
generate the pickle at install time (with a possible error), and  
silently ignore failed re-creating attempts otherwise.

- Robert

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