Commit 669ecc33 authored by Robert Bradshaw's avatar Robert Bradshaw

Added limitations from wiki.

parent 1af954ae
......@@ -14,3 +14,59 @@ future version 1.0 of Cython is planned to provide full Python
language compatibility.
.. _`list of remaining compatibility issues`: http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=Python+Semantics&component=Python3+Semantics&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=component&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone
Below is a list of differences that we will probably not be addressing.
Most of these things that fall more into the implementation details rather
than semantics, and we may decide not to fix (or require a --pedantic flag to get).
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Nested tuple argument unpacking.
==========
::
def f((a,b), c):
pass
This was removed in Python 3.
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Inspect support
==========
While it is quite possible to emulate the interface of functions in
Cython's own function type, and recent Cython releases have seen several
improvements here, the "inspect" module does not consider a Cython
implemented function a "function", because it tests the object type
explicitly instead of comparing an abstract interface or an abstract
base class. This has a negative impact on code that uses inspect to
inspect function objects, but would require a change to Python itself.
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Stack frames
==========
Currently we generate fake tracebacks as part of exception propagation,
but don't fill in locals and can't fill in co_code.
To be fully compatible, we would have to generate these stack frame objects at
function call time (with a potential performance penalty). We may have an
option to enable this for debugging.
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Identity vs. equality for inferred literals.
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::
a = 1.0 # a inferred to be double
b = c = None # a inferred to be type object
if some_runtime_expression:
b = a
c = a
print b is c # py float created twice
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