[Cython] cython doesn't compile cdef'd variables of type set?

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Oct 1, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Thomas Keller wrote:

> Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at ...> writes:
>
>
>>
>> BTW, access to the 'set' methods is not currently optimized in any
>> way. If you can help me a bit, we can optimize this, ie. map
>> 'someset.add(obj)' to a direct Python C-API call. If you make a heavy
>> use of sets this could give you some speedup.
>
> I'm not sure how useful I'll be, but I'd be glad to try helping.  
> The program I
> am trying to use this with centers around a loop that heavily uses  
> various set
> operations, so I am definitely interested. What files should I look  
> at to see
> what to follow? As a disclaimer, I've never tried directly  
> interfacing with the
> Python C-API.

You could look at how list and dict are handled at the bottom of

http://hg.cython.org/cython-devel/file/c9f3badef047/Cython/Compiler/ 
Builtin.py

- Robert