[Cython] inherit from list

Robin Becker robin at reportlab.com
Tue Apr 21 18:40:16 CEST 2009


.........
> 
> Yes, that warning is currently a bit misleading in this specific case, as
> there is not yet a way to achieve inheritance of builtin types without the
> above declaration. It's meant more for code that uses the declared type in
> other places than supertypes, where Cython now handles these types better
> on its own.
> 
> This is what ticket #258 is supposed to mean.
> 
> http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/258
> 
> See also ticket #170:
> 
> http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/170
> 
> If you use the "list" type only for subtypes, just ignore the warning. It
> will become an error once Cython can deal with this case directly, so you
> will notice when it's time to remove the declaration.
> 
> Stefan
......

OK thanks. I noticed that all seems to work. Is the intent to allow inheriting 
from builtin types to be handled automatically as it is in python where list is 
both a constructor and a type?
-- 
Robin Becker


More information about the Cython-dev mailing list