[SciPy-Dev] git-friendly cythonize script + Tempita templating

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

On 01/31/2011 07:52 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote:
> Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:48:54 +0100, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
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>> Later (too late) I discovered that Mako was already in use in SciPy in
>> interpolate/interpnd.pyx. In the "cythonize" branch linked to above I've
>> converted it to use Tempita instead, in case you agree with that. The
>> advantage with Tempita is that it fits in a single ~1000-line Python
>> file, so that it should be convenient to bundle it with the build system
>> on a later date.
>>      
> I don't have strong feelings for one way or another. Since the templates
> should be used only for simple stuff, whatever is used probably doesn't
> matter too much. (Using them for more complicated stuff would be like
> "Hi, I put code generation in your code generation" ;).
>    

:-)

Well, ideally Cython should cope with most of your code generation 
needs, but in practice its preprocessing/macro capabilities can be too 
limited sometimes. Hopefully we can meet in Munich and talk more about 
this...

Dag Sverre