[Cython] removing ALL those nasty warnings about string constants

[Michael Abshoff]

Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
> Michael Abshoff wrote:
>> Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
>> Hi Lisandro,

Hi,

>>> BTW, Python 2.5 is better about those problems than 2.4, with in turns
>>> is better than 2.3 .... Python 2.3 is probably near to be unsupported
>>> for some very popular packages, like numpy (funny enough, last time
>>> I've tried numpy 1.2.1 did not work on 2.3 because of a generator)...
>>> so the question is: Could I target all those fixes for 2.4 and above?
>>> If not, I'll have to put the casting macro at ever more places...
>> numpy still supports Python 2.3 and probably will so in the future. The 
>> bug you mentioned has been fixed IIRC and ought to be in 1.2.2 and 1.3.
> 
> Does this mean that this (from the 1.2.1 release notes) has changed?

Sorry, I was confused.

> "Please note that NumPy 1.2.1 requires Python 2.4 or greater."

I just checked and you are correct:

"If you're right (the operation not being possible under python 2.3),
then this is a bug. Numpy 1.1.* still supports python 2.3. Starting from
1.2, we will only support 2.4 (and above)."


> Dag Sverre

Cheers,

Michael

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