On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stefan Behnel, 31.10.2010 08:27:
>> Stefan Behnel, 30.10.2010 21:16:
>>> can now write something like this for a type that you only use internally
>>> in your module:
>>>
>>>       @cython.final
>>>       @cython.internal
>>>       cdef class _MyInternalType:
>>>          ...
>>
>> One problem I spotted was the auto test dict (again). It takes the classes
>> from the module dict if they have a docstring, which now fails for internal
>> types (it would also fail for 'del'-ed types, BTW). I always wondered why
>> it used the module dict anyway - I guess it's just simplicity. Any reason
>> not to rewrite that?
>
> I simplified it now to use the compile time docstrings directly, instead of
> looking them up at runtime. I don't think this breaks anything important,
> as the docstrings of functions and methods cannot be modified anyway. On
> the plus side, it removes a *ton* of ugly C code, and also saves some time
> during module initialisation.

Excellent! I've been wanting to do this myself, eventually when I
found the time. This means that cdef methods could have tested
docstrings as well (though, of course, they couldn't be called
directly).

- Robert
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