Stefan Behnel, 18.07.2012 09:09: > the following pull request tries to fix the fact that we currently generate > arguments of type "PyObject*" when someone spells out "type" for them. > > https://github.com/cython/cython/pull/126 > > That's mostly a problem in CPython's C-API, but also in some NumPy > functions. The correct way to translate this would be as a "PyTypeObject*", > not a bare "PyObject*". > > Does anyone see a general problem with changing this in the compiler > directly? I'm not sure that it won't break code, for example. We'll at > least have to cast the arguments on the way in as well.
Following up on this: I came to the conclusion that PyTypeObject is really not what one wants in normal code. Even if a "type" is declared, you still want a plain object to work with in almost all cases that just happens to be a type object on top. That makes the request a pure C-API thing and I think the pull request handles this quite ok. Stefan _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
