On Jul 06, 2012, at 11:59 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>>The generated code does a `catch(...)` so you lose that useful information.
>>AFAICT, there's no way to find out within the catch clause (or anything
>>called by that clause) what C++ exception occurred.
>
>But that requires something mor
So if you have code like the following:
cdef class Database:
cdef open(self, path) except +raise_py_error:
something_that_can_throw_a_cpp_exception(path)
you can write
cdef int raise_py_error():
raise Something
to kind of turn a C++ exception into a Python exception. The proble
Thanks for the follow up Stefan,
On Jul 06, 2012, at 06:48 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>This is very weird behaviour indeed. I wouldn't know why that should
>happen. What "return as_bytes.decode('utf-8')" does is that is calls
>strlen() to see how long the string is, then it calls the UTF-8 decode
>
I'm currently exploring using Cython to provide new Python 3 bindings for
Xapian. I'm pretty much a Cython n00b but the documentation is great, and I
was able to pretty quickly get something really simple working. I'm using
Cython 0.15 on Ubuntu 12.04 with Python 3.2 and Xapian 1.2.12. I've push
