Hi, recent changes in Py3.4 affect the functionality of the two directives "embedsignature" and "autotestdict".
The so-called "argument clinic" extracts any embedded signatures from docstrings and moves them into a new property "__text_signature__". This is done at runtime, i.e. when either "__doc__" or "__text_signature__" are requested. http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/6a3e09cd96f3/Objects/methodobject.c#l182 I personally consider this a feature (and it works nicely with the signatures that Cython embeds), but you may or may not agree. It broke some of our own doctests, at least, because the "__doc__" value that we tested for was no longer the same. Regarding the "autotestdict", CPython also got smarter and now finds doctests embedded in C implemented functions all by itself. This is clearly an improvement compared to the previous behaviour. However, this also means that it now executes both the doctest of the function itself and its copy in the generated "__test__" dict (stored in the module under that name), meaning that it executes all function doctests twice. This also broke some of Cython's own doctests for us, which modified global state and thus failed the second time. I'm yet unsure if we should try to do something about this. Currently, the explicit doctest dict is generated by default, so all code that uses doctests in function docstrings suffers from this. We might be able to make Cython a bit smarter so that these docstrings are left out of the test dict when (C-)compiling in CPython 3.4. Deciding which ones are still needed might be a bit tricky, though... Stefan _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
