[pypy-issue] [issue1178] adding support to lxml in pypy

[Amaury Forgeot d Arc]

Amaury Forgeot d Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> added the comment:

This approach is wrong: PyPy objects are very different from CPython objects (hey, they are not even 
pointers: their addresses can move!)

Normally extension modules shouldn't have to know the exact layout of objects: they call 
"PyList_GetItem(list, index)", and not for example "list->ob_item[index]"... which is good for PyPy, 
which can provide a different implementation.

For "performance reasons", lxml (and Cpython which is used to generate its C code) made use of its 
knowledge of CPython internals, and won't work with PyPy.

Many issues have been fixed with recent versions of Cython.  You should try to regenerate lxml with a 
recent Cython, or wait for a version of lxml that supports PyPy.

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nosy: +afa
status: chatting -> wontfix

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