Commit 73009ce2 authored by Stefan Behnel's avatar Stefan Behnel

doc fix in .pxd file

parent ae9a7c07
......@@ -24,15 +24,17 @@
# cdef extern from "Python.h":
# PyObject* PyNumber_Add(PyObject *o1, PyObject *o2)
#
# in your file after any .pxi includes. Cython will use the latest
# declaration.
# in your .pyx file or into a cimported .pxd file. You just have to
# use the one from the right (pxd-)namespace then.
#
# Cython automatically takes care of reference counting for anything
# of type object.
#
# Cython takes care of this automatically for anything of type object.
## More precisely, I think the correct convention for
## using the Python/C API from Pyrex is as follows.
## using the Python/C API from Cython is as follows.
##
## (1) Declare all input arguments as type "object". This way no explicit
## <PyObject*> casting is needed, and moreover Pyrex doesn't generate
## <PyObject*> casting is needed, and moreover Cython doesn't generate
## any funny reference counting.
## (2) Declare output as object if a new reference is returned.
## (3) Declare output as PyObject* if a borrowed reference is returned.
......@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@
## This way when you call objects, no cast is needed, and if the api
## calls returns a new reference (which is about 95% of them), then
## you can just assign to a variable of type object. With borrowed
## references if you do an explicit typecast to <object>, Pyrex generates an
## references if you do an explicit typecast to <object>, Cython generates an
## INCREF and DECREF so you have to be careful. However, you got a
## borrowed reference in this case, so there's got to be another reference
## to your object, so you're OK, as long as you relealize this
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