mark florisson, 13.10.2011 12:18:
On 13 October 2011 10:56, mark florisson wrote:
On 13 October 2011 10:53, Vitja Makarov wrote:
2011/10/13 Stefan Behnel:
Vitja Makarov, 13.10.2011 08:03:
I found that tempita bug goes away if you change language_level to 2.
There's no language level configured in Py2.4, which fails.
https://sage.math.washington.edu:8091/hudson/job/cython-devel-tests/48/BACKEND=c,PYVERSION=py24/console
No, I mean language level 3 is set at top of the Code.py, when it's
set to 2 Py2.4 build is okay.
Ah, it doesn't take unicode keyword arguments. That should be fixed.
Frankly, language level 3 is rather uncomfortable to deal with in
python 2(.4).
Well, without the parentheses, I presume ...
Any reason it's set to 3?
Mainly for performance reasons, especially in Python 2. Py3 code tends to
run faster in Cython due to more explicit semantics. In particular, we get
unicode content in and write unicode content out, so using unicode literals
in the source code right away saves a decoding step for each write or
interpolation of a literal string in Python 2. It won't make a difference
when running Cython in Python 3, but it saves a lot of unnecessary
processing cycles in Py2, even though the difference may not be substantial
over a complete run. It's just so convenient to switch the language level
and let that shave off a bunch of processing overhead that I didn't see a
reason not to do it.
I doubt that it'll make a functional difference, though, so if it works
better without that option, we may have to go back to Py2 compilation.
Stefan
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