ANN: Pyrex 0.3.1 (the REAL one!)
greg
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jun 20 02:07:15 EDT 2002
It seems that what I advertised before as Pyrex 0.3.1
was the wrong version. The correct one should be there
now!
> Pyrex 0.3.1 is now available:
>
> http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/
>
> Some fairly major problems with the new extension
> types facility have been fixed.
>
> There are also some new features:
>
> - Default argument values, * and ** arguments are
> now supported in Pyrex-defined Python functions.
>
> - External C functions with variable argument
> lists can be declared and called.
>
> - Full C type declaration syntax now supported,
> including pointer-to-function types.
>
> - More special methods for extension types:
> __delitem__, __delslice__, __getattr__,
> __setattr__, __delattr__
>
> - ctypedef statement.
>
> - String literal handling improved (triple
> quoted strings, escape sequences in strings
> should now work).
>
> - Hex, octal and imaginary literals.
>
> - Docstrings.
>
> What is Pyrex?
> --------------
>
> Pyrex is a new language for writing Python extension modules.
> It lets you freely mix operations on Python and C data, with
> all Python reference counting and error checking handled
> automatically.
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