[Cython] target language syntax of Cython: Py2.6 or Py3.0?

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>> I think this significantly impacts usability. For example, if I have  
>> a function
>>
>>      def foo(char* x):
>>          ...
>>   
> For this specific example, one could hypothetically do something like
> 
> def foo(utf8charbuf x):
>    ...

I could live with such syntactic sugar. UTF-8 is common enough to support it
this way.

But it has to be intuitively clear from the syntax that this is

a) a real char* that is compatible with any other char*, and

b) a UTF-8 encoded byte string that will only work when passing a unicode
string from Python.

If we can achieve both goals in one syntax, I'll be happy.

Stefan