[Cython] [Fwd: Re: Surprise: A bool isn't a bool]

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Subject: Re: Surprise: A bool isn't a bool
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:26:58 +0200
From: Bjarke Roune <bjarke@...>
To: Dag Sverre Seljebotn <dagss@...>
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> Indeed. The question is whether it is possible to find such a way. Perhaps
> disallow "bool" in cdef extern functions? Although that would add an
> unecesarry typecheck if a C library in fact did return a Python boolean
> object... (like many C functions in Python's standard library might).
>
Perhaps let there be a switch to turn the error or warning off, and
some kind of instruction in a Cython file that turns it off for only
that file.

Cheers
Bjarke

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