Commit 40f8bf81 authored by ggellner@encolpuis's avatar ggellner@encolpuis

Fixed javascript suffix issue that broke search. Added pyximport to...

Fixed javascript suffix issue that broke search. Added pyximport to compilation docs. Removed module and index links.
parent 2e83f128
......@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import cython_highlighting
extensions = ['ipython_console_highlighting', 'cython_highlighting']
# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
templates_path = ['.templates']
templates_path = ['_templates']
# The suffix of source filenames.
source_suffix = '.rst'
......@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ master_doc = 'index'
# General substitutions.
project = 'Cython'
copyright = '2008, Stefan Behnel, Robert Bradshaw, William Stein, Gary Furnish, Dag Seljebotn, Gabriel Gellner, Greg Ewing'
copyright = '2008, Stefan Behnel, Robert Bradshaw, Grew Ewing, William Stein, Gary Furnish, Dag Seljebotn, Gabriel Gellner'
# The default replacements for |version| and |release|, also used in various
# other places throughout the built documents.
......@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ copyright = '2008, Stefan Behnel, Robert Bradshaw, William Stein, Gary Furnish,
# The short X.Y version.
version = '0.9.8.1'
# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
release = '0.9.8.1'
release = '0.9.8.1.1'
# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
# non-false value, then it is used:
......@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ pygments_style = 'sphinx'
# Options for HTML output
# -----------------------
# suffix for generated files
html_file_suffix = '.html'
# The style sheet to use for HTML and HTML Help pages. A file of that name
# must exist either in Sphinx' static/ path, or in one of the custom paths
# given in html_static_path.
......@@ -114,7 +117,10 @@ html_favicon = '_static/favicon.ico'
#html_additional_pages = {}
# If false, no module index is generated.
#html_use_modindex = True
html_use_modindex = False
# Don't generate and index
html_use_index = False
# If true, the reST sources are included in the HTML build as _sources/<name>.
#html_copy_source = True
......
......@@ -102,3 +102,87 @@ we would have instead::
ext_modules = [Extension("example", ["example.c"])]
)
.. _pyximport:
Pyximport
===========
.. TODO add some text about how this is Paul Prescods code. Also change the
tone to be more universal (i.e. remove all the I statements)
Cython is a compiler. Therefore it is natural that people tend to go
through an edit/compile/test cycle with Cython modules. But my personal
opinion is that one of the deep insights in Python's implementation is
that a language can be compiled (Python modules are compiled to ``.pyc``)
files and hide that compilation process from the end-user so that they
do not have to worry about it. Pyximport does this for Cython modules.
For instance if you write a Cython module called :file:`foo.pyx`, with
Pyximport you can import it in a regular Python module like this::
import pyximport; pyximport.install()
import foo
Doing so will result in the compilation of :file:`foo.pyx` (with appropriate
exceptions if it has an error in it).
If you would always like to import Cython files without building them
specially, you can also the first line above to your :file:`sitecustomize.py`.
That will install the hook every time you run Python. Then you can use
Cython modules just with simple import statements. I like to test my
Cython modules like this::
$ python -c "import foo"
Dependency Handling
--------------------
In Pyximport 1.1 it is possible to declare that your module depends on
multiple files, (likely ``.h`` and ``.pxd`` files). If your Cython module is
named ``foo`` and thus has the filename :file:`foo.pyx` then you should make
another file in the same directory called :file:`foo.pyxdep`. The
:file:`modname.pyxdep` file can be a list of filenames or "globs" (like
``*.pxd`` or ``include/*.h``). Each filename or glob must be on a separate
line. Pyximport will check the file date for each of those files before
deciding whether to rebuild the module. In order to keep track of the
fact that the dependency has been handled, Pyximport updates the
modification time of your ".pyx" source file. Future versions may do
something more sophisticated like informing distutils of the
dependencies directly.
Limitations
------------
Pyximport does not give you any control over how your Cython file is
compiled. Usually the defaults are fine. You might run into problems if
you wanted to write your program in half-C, half-Cython and build them
into a single library. Pyximport 1.2 will probably do this.
Pyximport does not hide the Distutils/GCC warnings and errors generated
by the import process. Arguably this will give you better feedback if
something went wrong and why. And if nothing went wrong it will give you
the warm fuzzy that pyximport really did rebuild your module as it was
supposed to.
For further thought and discussion
------------------------------------
I don't think that Python's :func:`reload` will do anything for changed
``.so``'s on some (all?) platforms. It would require some (easy)
experimentation that I haven't gotten around to. But reload is rarely used in
applications outside of the Python interactive interpreter and certainly not
used much for C extension modules. Info about Windows
`<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-July/053798.html>`_
``setup.py install`` does not modify :file:`sitecustomize.py` for you. Should it?
Modifying Python's "standard interpreter" behaviour may be more than
most people expect of a package they install..
Pyximport puts your ``.c`` file beside your ``.pyx`` file (analogous to
``.pyc`` beside ``.py``). But it puts the platform-specific binary in a
build directory as per normal for Distutils. If I could wave a magic
wand and get Cython or distutils or whoever to put the build directory I
might do it but not necessarily: having it at the top level is *VERY*
*HELPFUL* for debugging Cython problems.
......@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ Congratulations! You now know how to build a Cython extension. But So Far
this example doesn't really give a feeling why one would ever want to use Cython, so
lets create a more realistic example.
:mod:`pyximport`: Cython Compilation the Easy Way
==================================================
Fibonacci Fun
==============
......
import math
def great_circle(lon1, lat1, lon2, lat2):
radius = 3956 # miles
x = math.pi/180.0
a = (90.0 - lat1)*x
b = (90.0 - lat2)*x
theta = (lon2 - lon1)*x
c = math.acos(math.cos(a)*math.cos(b) + math.sin(a)*math.sin(b)*math.cos(theta))
return radius*c
import math
def great_circle(double lon1, double lat1, double lon2, double lat2):
cdef double radius = 3956 # miles
cdef double x = math.pi/180.0
cdef double a, b, theta, c
a = (90.0 - lat1)*x
b = (90.0 - lat2)*x
theta = (lon2 - lon1)*x
c = math.acos(math.cos(a)*math.cos(b) + math.sin(a)*math.sin(b)*math.cos(theta))
return radius*c
import math
def great_circle(lon1, lat1, lon2, lat2):
radius = 3956 # miles
x = math.pi/180.0
a = (90.0 - lat1)*x
b = (90.0 - lat2)*x
theta = (lon2 - lon1)*x
c = math.acos(math.cos(a)*math.cos(b) + math.sin(a)*math.sin(b)*math.cos(theta))
return radius*c
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