On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Craig Citro, 25.08.2010 10:00: >> It is with *great* pleasure that I email to announce the release of >> Cython version 0.13! > > Yay! :)
Wohoo! Now onto 0.13.1. >> * bool is no longer a valid type name by default. The problem is that >> it's not clear whether bool should refer to the Python type or the C++ >> type, and expecting one and finding the other has already led to >> several hard-to-find bugs. Both types are available for importing: you >> can use from cpython cimport bool for the Python bool type, and from >> libcpp cimport bool for the C++ type. > > Reading this, I noticed that cimporting 'bool' will break valid Python code > like "bool(some_pyvalue)". However, given that the Python 'bool' type is so > rarely used as a type declaration (mostly because Python's boolean coercion > features are much too powerful to restrict values to True/False), I don't > think this will pose problems in real life. Cimporting bool from stdcpp will break this, but cimporting it from cpython will bring back the old behavior including bool(some_value) still working. What should work is cimporting bool from stdcpp and doing <bool>some_value. - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list Cython-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
