[Cython] Utility Codes and templates

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

On 07/22/2011 12:12 PM, mark florisson wrote:
> For my work on the _memview branch (and also on fused types) I noticed
> that UtilityCodes started weighing heavily on me in their current
> form, so I wrote a little loader in the _memview branch:
>
> https://github.com/markflorisson88/cython/commit/e13debed2db78680ec0bd8c343433a2b73bd5e64#L2R110
>
> The idea is simple: you put your utility codes in Cython/Utility in
> .pyx, .c, .h files etc, and then load them. It works for both
> prototypes and implementations, for UtilityCode and CythonUtilityCode:
>
> myutility.c
>
> // UtilityProto: MyUtility
> header code here
>
> // UtilityCode: MyUtility
> implementation code here
>
> You can add as many other utilities as you like to the same file. You
> can then load it using
>
>      UtilityCode.load_utility_from_file("myutility.c", "MyUtility")
>
> Of course you can pass in any other arguments, like proto_block, name,
> etc. You can additionally pass it a dict for formatting (for both the
> prototypes and the implementation). It will return a UtilityCode
> instance ready for use.
> You can also simply retrieve a utility code as a string, where it
> returns (proto, implementation).
>
> As debated before, an actual template library would be really
> convenient. Dag and I had a discussion about it and he suggested
> Tempita (by Ian Bicking), it is compatible with Python 2 and Python 3,
> and is pure-python. It supports all the good things like iteration,
> template inheritance, etc. Now I'm not sure whether it supports python
> 2.3 as it doesn't compile on my system, but it does support 2.4
> (confirmation for 2.3 would be appreciated). On a side note, I'd be
> perfectly happy to drop support for 2.3, it's kind of a chore.
> The documentation for Tempita can be found here: http://pythonpaste.org/tempita/

Also important:

(master) ~/code/tempita $ sloccount tempita/
SLOC	Directory	SLOC-by-Language (Sorted)
1050    tempita         python=1050

That is, 1050 source code lines. So it can easily (and should probably) 
be bundled with Cython, in the same way Plex is.

Dag Sverre