[Cython] how to initialize my c array in a quick way?

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

zhen_qing_he_456 wrote:
>      if in my fuction i declare a c array like: 
>                cdef  int a[5]
>      now if want to initialize my array a, i can do follow:
>         a[0] = 1  
>         a[1] = 10
>            :
>           :
>         a[4] = 3
>      the value to my array is not continuous. Is there a quicker way in Cython  to do it like in c:
>            a[5] = {1,3,28,5,3}

In the current Cython release candidate

http://cython.org/Cython-0.10.rc.tar.gz

you can do

	def test():
	    cdef int* a = [1,2,3,4,5]
	    print a[0]

Apparently, this currently only works inside functions, but that should be
fixable.

Stefan