Commit c7d08407 authored by Stefan Behnel's avatar Stefan Behnel

doc cleanup and some Sphinx fixes

parent 0b958625
......@@ -20,9 +20,8 @@ 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.
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Nested tuple argument unpacking
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::
......@@ -32,9 +31,8 @@ Nested tuple argument unpacking.
This was removed in Python 3.
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Inspect support
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While it is quite possible to emulate the interface of functions in
Cython's own function type, and recent Cython releases have seen several
......@@ -45,9 +43,8 @@ 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
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Currently we generate fake tracebacks as part of exception propagation,
but don't fill in locals and can't fill in co_code.
......@@ -55,18 +52,15 @@ 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
Identity vs. equality for inferred literals
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a = 1.0 # a inferred to be C type 'double'
b = c = None # b and c inferred to be type 'object'
if some_runtime_expression:
b = a # creates a new Python float object
c = a # creates a new Python float object
print b is c # most likely not the same object
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