Re: [Cython] C++ method overloading?

2010/2/9 Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@...>:
>
> Robert Bradshaw, 08.02.2010 20:20:
>> On Feb 8, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 8, 2010, at 7:33 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>>
>>>> The exact error depends on the order in which I declare the two
>>>> methods. It
>>>> seems that the last declaration wins. And Cython also doesn't
>>>> complain
>>>> about the constructor call right two methods above, so that seems to
>>>> have
>>>> worked.
>>>>
>>>> Is this supposed to work for regular C++ methods?
>>> Yes, this should have worked. I'm surprised there aren't any tests for
>>> this...
>>
>> OK, pushed a quick fix: http://hg.cython.org/cython-devel/rev/94c13764ba4a
>
> Ok, that got me past this problem. The next one was that I was using
>
>    self.multiplier = testapi.Multiplier()
>
> by habit, instead of
>
>    self.multiplier = new testapi.Multiplier()
>
> This lead to an "<error>" being generated in the code, but no error shown
> on the output.
>
> After figuring that out, I got this:
>
> Error converting Pyrex file to C:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ...
> cdef class Multiplier:
>    cdef testapi.Multiplier* multiplier
>
>    def __cinit__(self, factor=None):
>        if factor is None:
>            self.multiplier = new testapi.Multiplier()
>                                                     ^
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> .../pytestapi.pyx:9:54: Expected ')'
>
> Totally weird kind of error, given that it points to the closing
> parenthesis already.

We didn't used cimported C++ classes. I'll take a look at this.
The problem is with the parser. It look at the first name and thinks
it is a class name, and so, expect a '('.

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