cython3: Cannot start!

[Stefan Behnel]

Paulo da Silva schrieb am 22.12.18 um 19:26:
> Sorry if this is OT.
> 
> I decided to give cython a try and cannot run a very simple program!
> 
> 1. I am using kubuntu 18.04 and installe cython3 (not cython).
> 
> 2. My program tp.pyx:
> 
> # cython: language_level=3
> print("Test",2)
> 
> 3. setup.py
> from distutils.core import setup
> from Cython.Build import cythonize
> 
> setup(
>     ext_modules = cythonize("tp.pyx")
> )
> 
> 4. Running it:
> python3 setup.py build_ext --inplace
> python3 -c 'import tp'
> 
> 5. output:
> ('Test', 2)
> 
> This is wrong for python3! It should output
> Test 2
> 
> It seems that it is parsing tp.pyx as a python2 script!
> 
> I tried to change the print to python2
> print "Test",2
> 
> and it recognizes the syntax and outputs
> Test 2
> 
> So, how can I tell cython to use python3?

Ubuntu 18.04 ships Cython 0.26, which has a funny bug that you hit above.
It switches the language-level too late, so that the first token (or word)
in the file is parsed with Py2 syntax. In your case, that's the print
statement, which is really parsed as (Py2) statement here, not as (Py3)
function. In normal cases, the language level does not matter for the first
statement in the source (because, why would you have a print() there?), so
it took us a while to find this bug.

pip-installing Cython will get you the latest release, where this bug is
resolved.

Stefan