[Cython] remaining open issues for 0.17

[Stefan Behnel]

Robert Bradshaw, 10.08.2012 20:54:
> OK, the problem boiled down to using 'b' or 'B' for the format string
> for char rather than 'c'. See, e.g.
> http://docs.python.org/library/array.html . I've pushed a fix at
> https://github.com/robertwb/cython/commit/b0539cbc32c200a09b1fbddf2d6943e92aec2f3e
> , but it'd be good to have another set of eyes with someone more
> familiar with this code to be sure I didn't miss anything. It also
> involved a lot of changes to the tests
> https://github.com/robertwb/cython/commit/6bcc8fd8419e6e4079344788023029736610d5aa
> so is not exactly backwards compatible, though perhaps more correct.

That's unfortunate, but since it's a bug, it needs fixing.

Stefan