[Cython] Initializing var to struct?

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Hoyt Koepke <hoytak at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
> I wanted to have a single structure that holds a bunch of option
> parameters for my algorithm.  This structure would get passed around
> between some of the functions, and some of the particular options are
> in the inner loop of things and so I wanted access to be quick.  I
> wanted to put the defaults in the structure definition and then allow
> the user to change them if needed after creating the structure.

That's a very valid and useful use case.

> I ended up using an extension class w/ constructor to hold the options,
> which I think is a better solution,

Well, I'm not sure if that is a better solution. It seems suboptimal
to have to create a new python instance just for the purposes of
storing a bunch of paramenters.




>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, if that could be supported, perhaps it would be a good feature ;-).
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn
>> <dagss at student.matnat.uio.no> wrote:
>>> Was this ever supposed to work, if so, what did it do?
>>>
>>> cdef struct A:
>>>     int a = 4
>>>
>>> I have code to disallow it ready (raise compiler error) but then I
>>> thought that perhaps it had a purpose (how else did Hoyt run into it...)
>>>
>>> http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/64
>>>
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