Stefan Behnel, 06.07.2012 06:48:
> One thing I would generally suggest is to do this:
>
> descr = self._this.get_description()
> return descr.data()[:descr.size()].decode('utf-8')
>
> Avoids the call to strlen() by explicitly slicing the pointer. Also avoids
> needing to make sure the C s
Barry Warsaw, 06.07.2012 16:21:
> 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 t
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
>
Hi Barry,
Barry Warsaw, 06.07.2012 00:29:
> 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
