[Cython] [cython-users] Cython .pxd introspection: listing defined constants
Stefan Behnel
stefan_ml at behnel.de
Tue Feb 22 20:18:21 CET 2011
W. Trevor King, 22.02.2011 18:55:
> I've been working on a more explicit parser that removes the ambiguity
> behind the various visibilities. This will help me ensure proper
> impolementation of my cdef-ed enums/structs/..., and make it easier to
> update visibility syntax in the future. Take a look and let me know
> if you think this is a useful direction to take:
>
> git: http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/code/git/cython.git
> branch: cdef-enums-stucts-and-unions
> gitweb:
> http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/code/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cython.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/cdef-enums-stucts-and-unions
It doesn't seem like I can leave comments in the gitweb version, so I'll
comment here.
First thing that caught my eyes: I hope you do not intend to leave the
logging usage in the parser. This is seriously performance critical code
that Cython compiles down to pretty fast C code. Note that you can use a
debugger and Python's profiling/tracing interface to find out what's
happening, without code impact.
Some of the log statements span more than one line, which makes it trickier
to strip them out with sed&friends (but backing out the initial changeset
would likely make it simple enough to remove the rest manually).
Also note that it's best to write runnable tests ("tests/run/"). The tests
in "tests/compile/" are only compiled and imported. See the hacking guide
in the wiki. I know you're not there yet with your implementation, I'm just
mentioning it.
Most important point, however: I think it's a good idea to clean up the
parsing context the way you did it. The semantic distinction of the three
new classes you added makes sense to me.
CtxAttribute is the wrong name, though. And the class copy implementation
gets even more generic than it already was in the Ctx. I'm not a big fan of
that, especially not in the parser. For one, it prevents changing the
classes into cdef classes, which had long been on my list for Ctx.
CSource: doesn't sound like quite the right name - it does not describe a C
source file but information that Cython has about non-Cython things.
I also doubt that Cython allows you to call an attribute "cdef", you'll
need to change that.
Stefan
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