Changelog
### 0.29.2
```
===================
Bugs fixed
----------
* The code generated for deduplicated constants leaked some references.
(Github issue 2750)
* The declaration of ``sigismember()`` in ``libc.signal`` was corrected.
(Github issue 2756)
* Crashes in compiler and test runner were fixed.
(Github issue 2736, 2755)
* A C compiler warning about an invalid safety check was resolved.
(Github issue 2731)
```
### 0.29.1
```
===================
Bugs fixed
----------
* Extensions compiled with MinGW-64 under Windows could misinterpret integer
objects larger than 15 bit and return incorrect results.
(Github issue 2670)
* Cython no longer requires the source to be writable when copying its data
into a memory view slice.
Patch by Andrey Paramonov. (Github issue 2644)
* Line tracing of ``try``-statements generated invalid C code.
(Github issue 2274)
* When using the ``warn.undeclared`` directive, Cython's own code generated
warnings that are now fixed.
Patch by Nicolas Pauss. (Github issue 2685)
* Cython's memoryviews no longer require strides for setting the shape field
but only the ``PyBUF_ND`` flag to be set.
Patch by John Kirkham. (Github issue 2716)
* Some C compiler warnings about unused memoryview code were fixed.
Patch by Ho Cheuk Ting. (Github issue 2588)
* A C compiler warning about implicit signed/unsigned conversion was fixed.
(Github issue 2729)
* Assignments to C++ references returned by ``operator[]`` could fail to compile.
(Github issue 2671)
* The power operator and the support for NumPy math functions were fixed
in Pythran expressions.
Patch by Serge Guelton. (Github issues 2702, 2709)
* Signatures with memory view arguments now show the expected type
when embedded in docstrings.
Patch by Matthew Chan and Benjamin Weigel. (Github issue 2634)
* Some ``from ... cimport ...`` constructs were not correctly considered
when searching modified dependencies in ``cythonize()`` to decide
whether to recompile a module.
Patch by Kryštof Pilnáček. (Github issue 2638)
* A struct field type in the ``cpython.array`` declarations was corrected.
Patch by John Kirkham. (Github issue 2712)
```
### 0.29
```
=================
Features added
--------------
* PEP-489 multi-phase module initialisation has been enabled again. Module
reloads in other subinterpreters raise an exception to prevent corruption
of the static module state.
* A set of ``mypy`` compatible PEP-484 declarations were added for Cython's C data
types to integrate with static analysers in typed Python code. They are available
in the ``Cython/Shadow.pyi`` module and describe the types in the special ``cython``
module that can be used for typing in Python code.
Original patch by Julian Gethmann. (Github issue 1965)
* Memoryviews are supported in PEP-484/526 style type declarations.
(Github issue 2529)
* ``cython.nogil`` is supported as a C-function decorator in Python code.
(Github issue 2557)
* Raising exceptions from nogil code will automatically acquire the GIL, instead
of requiring an explicit ``with gil`` block.
* C++ functions can now be declared as potentially raising both C++ and Python
exceptions, so that Cython can handle both correctly.
(Github issue 2615)
* ``cython.inline()`` supports a direct ``language_level`` keyword argument that
was previously only available via a directive.
* A new language level name ``3str`` was added that mostly corresponds to language
level 3, but keeps unprefixed string literals as type 'str' in both Py2 and Py3,
and the builtin 'str' type unchanged. This will become the default in the next
Cython release and is meant to help user code a) transition more easily to this
new default and b) migrate to Python 3 source code semantics without making support
for Python 2.x difficult.
* In CPython 3.6 and later, looking up globals in the module dict is almost
as fast as looking up C globals.
(Github issue 2313)
* For a Python subclass of an extension type, repeated method calls to non-overridden
cpdef methods can avoid the attribute lookup in Py3.6+, which makes them 4x faster.
(Github issue 2313)
* (In-)equality comparisons of objects to integer literals are faster.
(Github issue 2188)
* Some internal and 1-argument method calls are faster.
* Modules that cimport many external extension types from other Cython modules
execute less import requests during module initialisation.
* Constant tuples and slices are deduplicated and only created once per module.
(Github issue 2292)
* The coverage plugin considers more C file extensions such as ``.cc`` and ``.cxx``.
(Github issue 2266)
* The ``cythonize`` command accepts compile time variable values (as set by ``DEF``)
through the new ``-E`` option.
Patch by Jerome Kieffer. (Github issue 2315)
* ``pyximport`` can import from namespace packages.
Patch by Prakhar Goel. (Github issue 2294)
* Some missing numpy and CPython C-API declarations were added.
Patch by John Kirkham. (Github issues 2523, 2520, 2537)
* Declarations for the ``pylifecycle`` C-API functions were added in a new .pxd file
``cpython.pylifecycle``.
* The Pythran support was updated to work with the latest Pythran 0.8.7.
Original patch by Adrien Guinet. (Github issue 2600)
* ``%a`` is included in the string formatting types that are optimised into f-strings.
In this case, it is also automatically mapped to ``%r`` in Python 2.x.
* New C macro ``CYTHON_HEX_VERSION`` to access Cython's version in the same style as
``PY_HEX_VERSION``.
* Constants in ``libc.math`` are now declared as ``const`` to simplify their handling.
* An additional ``check_size`` clause was added to the ``ctypedef class`` name
specification to allow suppressing warnings when importing modules with
backwards-compatible ``PyTypeObject`` size changes.
Patch by Matti Picus. (Github issue 2627)
Bugs fixed
----------
* The exception handling in generators and coroutines under CPython 3.7 was adapted
to the newly introduced exception stack. Users of Cython 0.28 who want to support
Python 3.7 are encouraged to upgrade to 0.29 to avoid potentially incorrect error
reporting and tracebacks. (Github issue 1958)
* Crash when importing a module under Stackless Python that was built for CPython.
Patch by Anselm Kruis. (Github issue 2534)
* 2-value slicing of typed sequences failed if the start or stop index was None.
Patch by Christian Gibson. (Github issue 2508)
* Multiplied string literals lost their factor when they are part of another
constant expression (e.g. 'x' * 10 + 'y' => 'xy').
* String formatting with the '%' operator didn't call the special ``__rmod__()``
method if the right side is a string subclass that implements it.
(Python issue 28598)
* The directive ``language_level=3`` did not apply to the first token in the
source file. (Github issue 2230)
* Overriding cpdef methods did not work in Python subclasses with slots.
Note that this can have a performance impact on calls from Cython code.
(Github issue 1771)
* Fix declarations of builtin or C types using strings in pure python mode.
(Github issue 2046)
* Generator expressions and lambdas failed to compile in ``cfunc`` functions.
(Github issue 459)
* Global names with ``const`` types were not excluded from star-import assignments
which could lead to invalid C code.
(Github issue 2621)
* Several internal function signatures were fixed that lead to warnings in gcc-8.
(Github issue 2363)
* The numpy helper functions ``set_array_base()`` and ``get_array_base()``
were adapted to the current numpy C-API recommendations.
Patch by Matti Picus. (Github issue 2528)
* Some NumPy related code was updated to avoid deprecated API usage.
Original patch by jbrockmendel. (Github issue 2559)
* Several C++ STL declarations were extended and corrected.
Patch by Valentin Valls. (Github issue 2207)
* C lines of the module init function were unconditionally not reported in
exception stack traces.
Patch by Jeroen Demeyer. (Github issue 2492)
* When PEP-489 support is enabled, reloading the module overwrote any static
module state. It now raises an exception instead, given that reloading is
not actually supported.
* Object-returning, C++ exception throwing functions were not checking that
the return value was non-null.
Original patch by Matt Wozniski (Github Issue 2603)
* The source file encoding detection could get confused if the
``c_string_encoding`` directive appeared within the first two lines.
(Github issue 2632)
* Cython generated modules no longer emit a warning during import when the
size of the NumPy array type is larger than what was found at compile time.
Instead, this is assumed to be a backwards compatible change on NumPy side.
Other changes
-------------
* Cython now emits a warning when no ``language_level`` (2, 3 or '3str') is set
explicitly, neither as a ``cythonize()`` option nor as a compiler directive.
This is meant to prepare the transition of the default language level from
currently Py2 to Py3, since that is what most new users will expect these days.
The future default will, however, not enforce unicode literals, because this
has proven a major obstacle in the support for both Python 2.x and 3.x. The
next major release is intended to make this change, so that it will parse all
code that does not request a specific language level as Python 3 code, but with
``str`` literals. The language level 2 will continue to be supported for an
indefinite time.
* The documentation was restructured, cleaned up and examples are now tested.
The NumPy tutorial was also rewritten to simplify the running example.
Contributed by Gabriel de Marmiesse. (Github issue 2245)
* Cython compiles less of its own modules at build time to reduce the installed
package size to about half of its previous size. This makes the compiler
slightly slower, by about 5-7%.
```
### 0.28.6
```
===================
Bugs fixed
----------
* Extensions compiled with MinGW-64 under Windows could misinterpret integer
objects larger than 15 bit and return incorrect results.
(Github issue 2670)
* Multiplied string literals lost their factor when they are part of another
constant expression (e.g. 'x' * 10 + 'y' => 'xy').
```
### 0.28.5
```
===================
Bugs fixed
----------
* The discouraged usage of GCC's attribute ``optimize("Os")`` was replaced by the
similar attribute ``cold`` to reduce the code impact of the module init functions.
(Github issue 2494)
* A reference leak in Py2.x was fixed when comparing str to unicode for equality.
```
### 0.28.4
```
===================
Bugs fixed
----------
* Reallowing ``tp_clear()`` in a subtype of an ``no_gc_clear`` extension type
generated an invalid C function call to the (non-existent) base type implementation.
(Github issue 2309)
* Exception catching based on a non-literal (runtime) tuple could fail to match the
exception. (Github issue 2425)
* Compile fix for CPython 3.7.0a2. (Github issue 2477)
```
### 0.28.3
```
===================
Bugs fixed
----------
* Set iteration was broken in non-CPython since 0.28.
* ``UnicodeEncodeError`` in Py2 when ``%s`` formatting is optimised for
unicode strings. (Github issue 2276)
* Work around a crash bug in g++ 4.4.x by disabling the size reduction setting
of the module init function in this version. (Github issue 2235)
* Crash when exceptions occur early during module initialisation.
(Github issue 2199)
```
### 0.28.2
```
===================
Features added
--------------
* ``abs()`` is faster for Python long objects.
* The C++11 methods ``front()`` and ``end()`` were added to the declaration of
``libcpp.string``. Patch by Alex Huszagh. (Github issue 2123)
* The C++11 methods ``reserve()`` and ``bucket_count()`` are declared for
``libcpp.unordered_map``. Patch by Valentin Valls. (Github issue 2168)
Bugs fixed
----------
* The copy of a read-only memoryview was considered read-only as well, whereas
a common reason to copy a read-only view is to make it writable. The result
of the copying is now a writable buffer by default.
(Github issue 2134)
* The ``switch`` statement generation failed to apply recursively to the body of
converted if-statements.
* ``NULL`` was sometimes rejected as exception return value when the returned
type is a fused pointer type.
Patch by Callie LeFave. (Github issue 2177)
* Fixed compatibility with PyPy 5.11.
Patch by Matti Picus. (Github issue 2165)
Other changes
-------------
* The NumPy tutorial was rewritten to use memoryviews instead of the older
buffer declaration syntax.
Contributed by Gabriel de Marmiesse. (Github issue 2162)
```
### 0.28.1
```
===================
Bugs fixed
----------
* ``PyFrozenSet_New()`` was accidentally used in PyPy where it is missing
from the C-API.
* Assignment between some C++ templated types were incorrectly rejected
when the templates mix ``const`` with ``ctypedef``.
(Github issue 2148)
* Undeclared C++ no-args constructors in subclasses could make the compilation
fail if the base class constructor was declared without ``nogil``.
(Github issue 2157)
* Bytes %-formatting inferred ``basestring`` (bytes or unicode) as result type
in some cases where ``bytes`` would have been safe to infer.
(Github issue 2153)
* ``None`` was accidentally disallowed as typed return value of ``dict.pop()``.
(Github issue 2152)
```
### 0.28
```
=================
Features added
--------------
* Cdef classes can now multiply inherit from ordinary Python classes.
(The primary base must still be a c class, possibly ``object``, and
the other bases must *not* be cdef classes.)
* Type inference is now supported for Pythran compiled NumPy expressions.
Patch by Nils Braun. (Github issue 1954)
* The ``const`` modifier can be applied to memoryview declarations to allow
read-only buffers as input. (Github issues 1605, 1869)
* C code in the docstring of a ``cdef extern`` block is copied verbatimly
into the generated file.
Patch by Jeroen Demeyer. (Github issue 1915)
* When compiling with gcc, the module init function is now tuned for small
code size instead of whatever compile flags were provided externally.
Cython now also disables some code intensive optimisations in that function
to further reduce the code size. (Github issue 2102)
* Decorating an async coroutine with ``cython.iterable_coroutine`` changes its
type at compile time to make it iterable. While this is not strictly in line
with PEP-492, it improves the interoperability with old-style coroutines that
use ``yield from`` instead of ``await``.
* The IPython magic has preliminary support for JupyterLab.
(Github issue 1775)
* The new TSS C-API in CPython 3.7 is supported and has been backported.
Patch by Naotoshi Seo. (Github issue 1932)
* Cython knows the new ``Py_tss_t`` type defined in PEP-539 and automatically
initialises variables declared with that type to ``Py_tss_NEEDS_INIT``,
a value which cannot be used outside of static assignments.
* The set methods ``.remove()`` and ``.discard()`` are optimised.
Patch by Antoine Pitrou. (Github issue 2042)
* ``dict.pop()`` is optimised.
Original patch by Antoine Pitrou. (Github issue 2047)
* Iteration over sets and frozensets is optimised.
(Github issue 2048)
* Safe integer loops (< range(2^30)) are automatically optimised into C loops.
* ``alist.extend([a,b,c])`` is optimised into sequential ``list.append()`` calls
for short literal sequences.
* Calls to builtin methods that are not specifically optimised into C-API calls
now use a cache that avoids repeated lookups of the underlying C function.
(Github issue 2054)
* Single argument function calls can avoid the argument tuple creation in some cases.
* Some redundant extension type checks are avoided.
* Formatting C enum values in f-strings is faster, as well as some other special cases.
* String formatting with the '%' operator is optimised into f-strings in simple cases.
* Subscripting (item access) is faster in some cases.
* Some ``bytearray`` operations have been optimised similar to ``bytes``.
* Some PEP-484/526 container type declarations are now considered for
loop optimisations.
* Indexing into memoryview slices with ``view[i][j]`` is now optimised into
``view[i, j]``.
* Python compatible ``cython.*`` types can now be mixed with type declarations
in Cython syntax.
* Name lookups in the module and in classes are faster.
* Python attribute lookups on extension types without instance dict are faster.
* Some missing signals were added to ``libc/signal.pxd``.
Patch by Jeroen Demeyer. (Github issue 1914)
* The warning about repeated extern declarations is now visible by default.
(Github issue 1874)
* The exception handling of the function types used by CPython's type slot
functions was corrected to match the de-facto standard behaviour, so that
code that uses them directly benefits from automatic and correct exception
propagation. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer. (Github issue 1980)
* Defining the macro ``CYTHON_NO_PYINIT_EXPORT`` will prevent the module init
function from being exported as symbol, e.g. when linking modules statically
in an embedding setup. Patch by AraHaan. (Github issue 1944)
Bugs fixed
----------
* If a module name is explicitly provided for an ``Extension()`` that is compiled
via ``cythonize()``, it was previously ignored and replaced by the source file
name. It can now be used to override the target module name, e.g. for compiling
prefixed accelerator modules from Python files. (Github issue 2038)
* The arguments of the ``num_threads`` parameter of parallel sections
were not sufficiently validated and could lead to invalid C code.
(Github issue 1957)
* Catching exceptions with a non-trivial exception pattern could call into
CPython with a live exception set. This triggered incorrect behaviour
and crashes, especially in CPython 3.7.
* The signature of the special ``__richcmp__()`` method was corrected to recognise
the type of the first argument as ``self``. It was previously treated as plain
object, but CPython actually guarantees that it always has the correct type.
Note: this can change the semantics of user code that previously relied on
``self`` being untyped.
* Some Python 3 exceptions were not recognised as builtins when running Cython
under Python 2.
* Some async helper functions were not defined in the generated C code when
compiling simple async code. (Github issue 2075)
* Line tracing did not include generators and coroutines.
(Github issue 1949)
* C++ declarations for ``unordered_map`` were corrected.
Patch by Michael Schatzow. (Github issue 1484)
* Iterator declarations in C++ ``deque`` and ``vector`` were corrected.
Patch by Alex Huszagh. (Github issue 1870)
* The const modifiers in the C++ ``string`` declarations were corrected, together
with the coercion behaviour of string literals into C++ strings.
(Github issue 2132)
* Some declaration types in ``libc.limits`` were corrected.
Patch by Jeroen Demeyer. (Github issue 2016)
* ``cython.final`` was not accepted on Python classes with an ``cython.cclass``
decorator. (Github issue 2040)
* Cython no longer creates useless and incorrect ``PyInstanceMethod`` wrappers for
methods in Python 3. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer. (Github issue 2105)
* The builtin ``bytearray`` type could not be used as base type of cdef classes.
(Github issue 2106)
Other changes
-------------
```
### 0.27.3
```
===================
Bugs fixed
----------
* String forward references to extension types like ``cython.locals(x="ExtType")``
failed to find the named type. (Github issue 1962)
* NumPy slicing generated incorrect results when compiled with Pythran.
Original patch by Serge Guelton (Github issue 1946).
* Fix "undefined reference" linker error for generators on Windows in Py3.3-3.5.
(Github issue 1968)
* Adapt to recent C-API change of ``PyThreadState`` in CPython 3.7.
* Fix signature of ``PyWeakref_GetObject()`` API declaration.
Patch by Jeroen Demeyer (Github issue 1975).
```
### 0.27.2
```
===================
Bugs fixed
----------
* Comprehensions could incorrectly be optimised away when they appeared in boolean
test contexts. (Github issue 1920)
* The special methods ``__eq__``, ``__lt__`` etc. in extension types did not type
their first argument as the type of the class but ``object``. (Github issue 1935)
* Crash on first lookup of "cline_in_traceback" option during exception handling.
(Github issue 1907)
* Some nested module level comprehensions failed to compile.
(Github issue 1906)
* Compiler crash on some complex type declarations in pure mode.
(Github issue 1908)
* ``std::unordered_map.erase()`` was declared with an incorrect ``void`` return
type in ``libcpp.unordered_map``. (Github issue 1484)
* Invalid use of C++ ``fallthrough`` attribute before C++11 and similar issue in clang.
(Github issue 1930)
* Compiler crash on misnamed properties. (Github issue 1905)
```
### 0.27.1
```
===================
Features added
--------------
* The Jupyter magic has a new debug option ``--verbose`` that shows details about
the distutils invocation. Patch by Boris Filippov (Github issue 1881).
Bugs fixed
----------
* Py3 list comprehensions in class bodies resulted in invalid C code.
(Github issue 1889)
* Modules built for later CPython 3.5.x versions failed to import in 3.5.0/3.5.1.
(Github issue 1880)
* Deallocating fused types functions and methods kept their GC tracking enabled,
which could potentially lead to recursive deallocation attempts.
* Crash when compiling in C++ mode with old setuptools versions.
(Github issue 1879)
* C++ object arguments for the constructor of Cython implemented C++ are now
passed by reference and not by value to allow for non-copyable arguments, such
as ``unique_ptr``.
* API-exported C++ classes with Python object members failed to compile.
(Github issue 1866)
* Some issues with the new relaxed exception value handling were resolved.
* Python classes as annotation types could prevent compilation.
(Github issue 1887)
* Cython annotation types in Python files could lead to import failures
with a "cython undefined" error. Recognised types are now turned into strings.
* Coverage analysis could fail to report on extension modules on some platforms.
* Annotations could be parsed (and rejected) as types even with
``annotation_typing=False``.
Other changes
-------------
* PEP 489 support has been disabled by default to counter incompatibilities with
import setups that try to reload or reinitialise modules.
```
### 0.27
```
=================
Features added
--------------
* Extension module initialisation follows
`PEP 489 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0489/>`_ in CPython 3.5+, which
resolves several differences with regard to normal Python modules. This makes
the global names ``__file__`` and ``__path__`` correctly available to module
level code and improves the support for module-level relative imports.
(Github issues 1715, 1753, 1035)
* Asynchronous generators (`PEP 525 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0525/>`_)
and asynchronous comprehensions (`PEP 530 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0530/>`_)
have been implemented. Note that async generators require finalisation support
in order to allow for asynchronous operations during cleanup, which is only
available in CPython 3.6+. All other functionality has been backported as usual.
* Variable annotations are now parsed according to
`PEP 526 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0526/>`_. Cython types (e.g.
``cython.int``) are evaluated as C type declarations and everything else as Python
types. This can be disabled with the directive ``annotation_typing=False``.
Note that most complex PEP-484 style annotations are currently ignored. This will
change in future releases. (Github issue 1850)
* Extension types (also in pure Python mode) can implement the normal special methods
``__eq__``, ``__lt__`` etc. for comparisons instead of the low-level ``__richcmp__``
method. (Github issue 690)
* New decorator ``cython.exceptval(x=None, check=False)`` that makes the signature
declarations ``except x``, ``except? x`` and ``except *`` available to pure Python
code. Original patch by Antonio Cuni. (Github issue 1653)
* Signature annotations are now included in the signature docstring generated by
the ``embedsignature`` directive. Patch by Lisandro Dalcin (Github issue 1781).
* The gdb support for Python code (``libpython.py``) was updated to the latest
version in CPython 3.7 (git rev 5fe59f8).
* The compiler tries to find a usable exception return value for cdef functions
with ``except *`` if the returned type allows it. Note that this feature is subject
to safety limitations, so it is still better to provide an explicit declaration.
* C functions can be assigned to function pointers with a compatible exception
declaration, not only with exact matches. A side-effect is that certain compatible
signature overrides are now allowed and some more mismatches of exception signatures
are now detected and rejected as errors that were not detected before.
* The IPython/Jupyter magic integration has a new option ``%%cython --pgo`` for profile
guided optimisation. It compiles the cell with PGO settings for the C compiler,
executes it to generate a runtime profile, and then compiles it again using that
profile for C compiler optimisation. Currently only tested with gcc.
* ``len(memoryview)`` can be used in nogil sections to get the size of the
first dimension of a memory view (``shape[0]``). (Github issue 1733)
* C++ classes can now contain (properly refcounted) Python objects.
* NumPy dtype subarrays are now accessible through the C-API.
Patch by Gerald Dalley (Github issue 245).
* Resolves several issues with PyPy and uses faster async slots in PyPy3.
Patch by Ronan Lamy (Github issues 1871, 1878).
Bugs fixed
----------
* Extension types that were cimported from other Cython modules could disagree
about the order of fused cdef methods in their call table. This could lead
to wrong methods being called and potentially also crashes. The fix required
changes to the ordering of fused methods in the call table, which may break
existing compiled modules that call fused cdef methods across module boundaries,
if these methods were implemented in a different order than they were declared
in the corresponding .pxd file. (Github issue 1873)
* The exception state handling in generators and coroutines could lead to
exceptions in the caller being lost if an exception was raised and handled
inside of the coroutine when yielding. (Github issue 1731)
* Loops over ``range(enum)`` were not converted into C for-loops. Note that it
is still recommended to use an explicit cast to a C integer type in this case.
* Error positions of names (e.g. variables) were incorrectly reported after the
name and not at the beginning of the name.
* Compile time ``DEF`` assignments were evaluated even when they occur inside of
falsy ``IF`` blocks. (Github issue 1796)
* Disabling the line tracing from a trace function could fail.
Original patch by Dmitry Trofimov. (Github issue 1769)
* Several issues with the Pythran integration were resolved.
* abs(signed int) now returns a signed rather than unsigned int.
(Github issue 1837)
* Reading ``frame.f_locals`` of a Cython function (e.g. from a debugger or profiler
could modify the module globals. (Github issue 1836)
* Buffer type mismatches in the NumPy buffer support could leak a reference to the
buffer owner.
* Using the "is_f_contig" and "is_c_contig" memoryview methods together could leave
one of them undeclared. (Github issue 1872)
* Compilation failed if the for-in-range loop target was not a variable but a more
complex expression, e.g. an item assignment. (Github issue 1831)
* Compile time evaluations of (partially) constant f-strings could show incorrect
results.
* Escape sequences in raw f-strings (``fr'...'``) were resolved instead of passing
them through as expected.
* Some ref-counting issues in buffer error handling have been resolved.
Other changes
-------------
* Type declarations in signature annotations are now parsed according to
`PEP 484 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/>`_
typing. Only Cython types (e.g. ``cython.int``) and Python builtin types are
currently considered as type declarations. Everything else is ignored, but this
will change in a future Cython release.
(Github issue 1672)
* The directive ``annotation_typing`` is now ``True`` by default, which enables
parsing type declarations from annotations.
* This release no longer supports Python 3.2.
```
### 0.26.1
```
===================
Features added
--------------
Bugs fixed
----------
* ``cython.view.array`` was missing ``.__len__()``.
* Extension types with a ``.pxd`` override for their ``__releasebuffer__`` slot
(e.g. as provided by Cython for the Python ``array.array`` type) could leak
a reference to the buffer owner on release, thus not freeing the memory.
(Github issue 1638)
* Auto-decoding failed in 0.26 for strings inside of C++ containers.
(Github issue 1790)
* Compile error when inheriting from C++ container types.
(Github issue 1788)
* Invalid C code in generators (declaration after code).
(Github issue 1801)
* Arithmetic operations on ``const`` integer variables could generate invalid code.
(Github issue 1798)
* Local variables with names of special Python methods failed to compile inside of
closures. (Github issue 1797)
* Problem with indirect Emacs buffers in cython-mode.
Patch by Martin Albrecht (Github issue 1743).
* Extension types named ``result`` or ``PickleError`` generated invalid unpickling code.
Patch by Jason Madden (Github issue 1786).
* Bazel integration failed to compile ``.py`` files.
Patch by Guro Bokum (Github issue 1784).
* Some include directories and dependencies were referenced with their absolute paths
in the generated files despite lying within the project directory.
* Failure to compile in Py3.7 due to a modified signature of ``_PyCFunctionFast()``
```
### 0.26
```
=================
Features added
--------------
* Pythran can be used as a backend for evaluating NumPy array expressions.
Patch by Adrien Guinet (Github issue 1607).
* cdef classes now support pickling by default when possible.
This can be disabled with the ``auto_pickle`` directive.
* Speed up comparisons of strings if their hash value is available.
Patch by Claudio Freire (Github issue 1571).
* Support pyximport from zip files.
Patch by Sergei Lebedev (Github issue 1485).
* IPython magic now respects the ``__all__`` variable and ignores
names with leading-underscore (like ``import *`` does).
Patch by Syrtis Major (Github issue 1625).
* ``abs()`` is optimised for C complex numbers.
Patch by da-woods (Github issue 1648).
* The display of C lines in Cython tracebacks can now be enabled at runtime
via ``import cython_runtime; cython_runtime.cline_in_traceback=True``.
The default has been changed to False.
* The overhead of calling fused types generic functions was reduced.
* "cdef extern" include files are now also searched relative to the current file.
Patch by Jeroen Demeyer (Github issue 1654).
* Optional optimization for re-aquiring the GIL, controlled by the
`fast_gil` directive.
Bugs fixed
----------
* Item lookup/assignment with a unicode character as index that is typed
(explicitly or implicitly) as ``Py_UCS4`` or ``Py_UNICODE`` used the
integer value instead of the Unicode string value. Code that relied on
the previous behaviour now triggers a warning that can be disabled by
applying an explicit cast. (Github issue 1602)
* f-string processing was adapted to changes in PEP 498 and CPython 3.6.
* Invalid C code when decoding from UTF-16(LE/BE) byte strings.
(Github issue 1696)
* Unicode escapes in 'ur' raw-unicode strings were not resolved in Py2 code.
Original patch by Aaron Gallagher (Github issue 1594).
* File paths of code objects are now relative.
Original patch by Jelmer Vernooij (Github issue 1565).
* Decorators of cdef class methods could be executed twice.
Patch by Jeroen Demeyer (Github issue 1724).
* Dict iteration using the Py2 ``iter*`` methods failed in PyPy3.
Patch by Armin Rigo (Github issue 1631).
* Several warnings in the generated code are now suppressed.
Other changes
-------------
* The ``unraisable_tracebacks`` option now defaults to ``True``.
* Coercion of C++ containers to Python is no longer automatic on attribute
access (Github issue 1521).
* Access to Python attributes of cimported modules without the corresponding
import is now a compile-time (rather than runtime) error.
* Do not use special dll linkage for "cdef public" functions.
Patch by Jeroen Demeyer (Github issue 1687).
* cdef/cpdef methods must match their declarations. See Github Issue 1732.
This is now a warning and will be an error in future releases.
```
### 0.25.2
```
===================
Bugs fixed
----------
* Fixes several issues with C++ template deduction.
* Fixes a issue with bound method type inference (Github issue 551).
* Fixes a bug with cascaded tuple assignment (Github issue 1523).
* Fixed or silenced many Clang warnings.
* Fixes bug with powers of pure real complex numbers (Github issue 1538).
```
### 0.25.1
```
===================
Bugs fixed
----------
* Fixes a bug with ``isinstance(o, Exception)`` (Github issue 1496).
* Fixes bug with ``cython.view.array`` missing utility code in some cases
(Github issue 1502).
Other changes
-------------
* The distutils extension ``Cython.Distutils.build_ext`` has been reverted,
temporarily, to be ``old_build_ext`` to give projects time to migrate.
The new build_ext is available as ``new_build_ext``.
```
### 0.25
```
=================
Features added
--------------
* def/cpdef methods of cdef classes benefit from Cython's internal function
implementation, which enables introspection and line profiling for them.
Implementation sponsored by Turbostream (www.turbostream-cfd.com).
* Calls to Python functions are faster, following the recent "FastCall"
optimisations that Victor Stinner implemented for CPython 3.6.
See https://bugs.python.org/issue27128 and related issues.
* The new METH_FASTCALL calling convention for PyCFunctions is supported
in CPython 3.6. See https://bugs.python.org/issue27810
* Initial support for using Cython modules in Pyston.
Patch by Boxiang Sun.
* Dynamic Python attributes are allowed on cdef classes if an attribute
``cdef dict __dict__`` is declared in the class. Patch by empyrical.
* Cython implemented C++ classes can make direct calls to base class methods.
Patch by empyrical.
* C++ classes can now have typedef members. STL containers updated with
value_type.
* New directive ``cython.no_gc`` to fully disable GC for a cdef class.
Patch by Claudio Freire.
* Buffer variables are no longer excluded from ``locals()``.
Patch by da-woods.
* Building f-strings is faster, especially when formatting C integers.
* for-loop iteration over "std::string".
* ``libc/math.pxd`` provides ``e`` and ``pi`` as alias constants to simplify
usage as a drop-in replacement for Python's math module.
* Speed up cython.inline().
* Binary lshift operations with small constant Python integers are faster.
* Some integer operations on Python long objects are faster in Python 2.7.
* Support for the C++ ``typeid`` operator.
* Support for bazel using a the pyx_library rule in //Tools:rules.bzl.
Significant Bugs fixed
----------------------
* Division of complex numbers avoids overflow by using Smith's method.
* Some function signatures in ``libc.math`` and ``numpy.pxd`` were incorrect.
Patch by Michael Seifert.
Other changes
-------------
* The "%%cython" IPython/jupyter magic now defaults to the language level of
the current jupyter kernel. The language level can be set explicitly with
"%%cython -2" or "%%cython -3".
* The distutils extension ``Cython.Distutils.build_ext`` has now been updated
to use cythonize which properly handles dependencies. The old extension can
still be found in ``Cython.Distutils.old_build_ext`` and is now deprecated.
* ``directive_defaults`` is no longer available in ``Cython.Compiler.Options``,
use ``get_directive_defaults()`` instead.
```
### 0.24.1
```
===================
Bugs fixed
----------
* IPython cell magic was lacking a good way to enable Python 3 code semantics.
It can now be used as "%%cython -3".
* Follow a recent change in `PEP 492 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492/>`_
and CPython 3.5.2 that now requires the ``__aiter__()`` method of asynchronous
iterators to be a simple ``def`` method instead of an ``async def`` method.
* Coroutines and generators were lacking the ``__module__`` special attribute.
* C++ ``std::complex`` values failed to auto-convert from and to Python complex
objects.
* Namespaced C++ types could not be used as memory view types due to lack of
name mangling. Patch by Ivan Smirnov.
* Assignments between identical C++ types that were declared with differently
typedefed template types could fail.
* Rebuilds could fail to evaluate dependency timestamps in C++ mode.
Patch by Ian Henriksen.
* Macros defined in the ``distutils`` compiler option do not require values
anymore. Patch by Ian Henriksen.
* Minor fixes for MSVC, Cygwin and PyPy.
```
Links
- PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/cython
- Changelog: https://pyup.io/changelogs/cython/
- Homepage: http://cython.org/
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This PR updates Cython from 0.24 to 0.29.2.
Changelog
### 0.29.2 ``` =================== Bugs fixed ---------- * The code generated for deduplicated constants leaked some references. (Github issue 2750) * The declaration of ``sigismember()`` in ``libc.signal`` was corrected. (Github issue 2756) * Crashes in compiler and test runner were fixed. (Github issue 2736, 2755) * A C compiler warning about an invalid safety check was resolved. (Github issue 2731) ``` ### 0.29.1 ``` =================== Bugs fixed ---------- * Extensions compiled with MinGW-64 under Windows could misinterpret integer objects larger than 15 bit and return incorrect results. (Github issue 2670) * Cython no longer requires the source to be writable when copying its data into a memory view slice. Patch by Andrey Paramonov. (Github issue 2644) * Line tracing of ``try``-statements generated invalid C code. (Github issue 2274) * When using the ``warn.undeclared`` directive, Cython's own code generated warnings that are now fixed. Patch by Nicolas Pauss. (Github issue 2685) * Cython's memoryviews no longer require strides for setting the shape field but only the ``PyBUF_ND`` flag to be set. Patch by John Kirkham. (Github issue 2716) * Some C compiler warnings about unused memoryview code were fixed. Patch by Ho Cheuk Ting. (Github issue 2588) * A C compiler warning about implicit signed/unsigned conversion was fixed. (Github issue 2729) * Assignments to C++ references returned by ``operator[]`` could fail to compile. (Github issue 2671) * The power operator and the support for NumPy math functions were fixed in Pythran expressions. Patch by Serge Guelton. (Github issues 2702, 2709) * Signatures with memory view arguments now show the expected type when embedded in docstrings. Patch by Matthew Chan and Benjamin Weigel. (Github issue 2634) * Some ``from ... cimport ...`` constructs were not correctly considered when searching modified dependencies in ``cythonize()`` to decide whether to recompile a module. Patch by Kryštof Pilnáček. (Github issue 2638) * A struct field type in the ``cpython.array`` declarations was corrected. Patch by John Kirkham. (Github issue 2712) ``` ### 0.29 ``` ================= Features added -------------- * PEP-489 multi-phase module initialisation has been enabled again. Module reloads in other subinterpreters raise an exception to prevent corruption of the static module state. * A set of ``mypy`` compatible PEP-484 declarations were added for Cython's C data types to integrate with static analysers in typed Python code. They are available in the ``Cython/Shadow.pyi`` module and describe the types in the special ``cython`` module that can be used for typing in Python code. Original patch by Julian Gethmann. (Github issue 1965) * Memoryviews are supported in PEP-484/526 style type declarations. (Github issue 2529) * ``cython.nogil`` is supported as a C-function decorator in Python code. (Github issue 2557) * Raising exceptions from nogil code will automatically acquire the GIL, instead of requiring an explicit ``with gil`` block. * C++ functions can now be declared as potentially raising both C++ and Python exceptions, so that Cython can handle both correctly. (Github issue 2615) * ``cython.inline()`` supports a direct ``language_level`` keyword argument that was previously only available via a directive. * A new language level name ``3str`` was added that mostly corresponds to language level 3, but keeps unprefixed string literals as type 'str' in both Py2 and Py3, and the builtin 'str' type unchanged. This will become the default in the next Cython release and is meant to help user code a) transition more easily to this new default and b) migrate to Python 3 source code semantics without making support for Python 2.x difficult. * In CPython 3.6 and later, looking up globals in the module dict is almost as fast as looking up C globals. (Github issue 2313) * For a Python subclass of an extension type, repeated method calls to non-overridden cpdef methods can avoid the attribute lookup in Py3.6+, which makes them 4x faster. (Github issue 2313) * (In-)equality comparisons of objects to integer literals are faster. (Github issue 2188) * Some internal and 1-argument method calls are faster. * Modules that cimport many external extension types from other Cython modules execute less import requests during module initialisation. * Constant tuples and slices are deduplicated and only created once per module. (Github issue 2292) * The coverage plugin considers more C file extensions such as ``.cc`` and ``.cxx``. (Github issue 2266) * The ``cythonize`` command accepts compile time variable values (as set by ``DEF``) through the new ``-E`` option. Patch by Jerome Kieffer. (Github issue 2315) * ``pyximport`` can import from namespace packages. Patch by Prakhar Goel. (Github issue 2294) * Some missing numpy and CPython C-API declarations were added. Patch by John Kirkham. (Github issues 2523, 2520, 2537) * Declarations for the ``pylifecycle`` C-API functions were added in a new .pxd file ``cpython.pylifecycle``. * The Pythran support was updated to work with the latest Pythran 0.8.7. Original patch by Adrien Guinet. (Github issue 2600) * ``%a`` is included in the string formatting types that are optimised into f-strings. In this case, it is also automatically mapped to ``%r`` in Python 2.x. * New C macro ``CYTHON_HEX_VERSION`` to access Cython's version in the same style as ``PY_HEX_VERSION``. * Constants in ``libc.math`` are now declared as ``const`` to simplify their handling. * An additional ``check_size`` clause was added to the ``ctypedef class`` name specification to allow suppressing warnings when importing modules with backwards-compatible ``PyTypeObject`` size changes. Patch by Matti Picus. (Github issue 2627) Bugs fixed ---------- * The exception handling in generators and coroutines under CPython 3.7 was adapted to the newly introduced exception stack. Users of Cython 0.28 who want to support Python 3.7 are encouraged to upgrade to 0.29 to avoid potentially incorrect error reporting and tracebacks. (Github issue 1958) * Crash when importing a module under Stackless Python that was built for CPython. Patch by Anselm Kruis. (Github issue 2534) * 2-value slicing of typed sequences failed if the start or stop index was None. Patch by Christian Gibson. (Github issue 2508) * Multiplied string literals lost their factor when they are part of another constant expression (e.g. 'x' * 10 + 'y' => 'xy'). * String formatting with the '%' operator didn't call the special ``__rmod__()`` method if the right side is a string subclass that implements it. (Python issue 28598) * The directive ``language_level=3`` did not apply to the first token in the source file. (Github issue 2230) * Overriding cpdef methods did not work in Python subclasses with slots. Note that this can have a performance impact on calls from Cython code. (Github issue 1771) * Fix declarations of builtin or C types using strings in pure python mode. (Github issue 2046) * Generator expressions and lambdas failed to compile in ``cfunc`` functions. (Github issue 459) * Global names with ``const`` types were not excluded from star-import assignments which could lead to invalid C code. (Github issue 2621) * Several internal function signatures were fixed that lead to warnings in gcc-8. (Github issue 2363) * The numpy helper functions ``set_array_base()`` and ``get_array_base()`` were adapted to the current numpy C-API recommendations. Patch by Matti Picus. (Github issue 2528) * Some NumPy related code was updated to avoid deprecated API usage. Original patch by jbrockmendel. (Github issue 2559) * Several C++ STL declarations were extended and corrected. Patch by Valentin Valls. (Github issue 2207) * C lines of the module init function were unconditionally not reported in exception stack traces. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer. (Github issue 2492) * When PEP-489 support is enabled, reloading the module overwrote any static module state. It now raises an exception instead, given that reloading is not actually supported. * Object-returning, C++ exception throwing functions were not checking that the return value was non-null. Original patch by Matt Wozniski (Github Issue 2603) * The source file encoding detection could get confused if the ``c_string_encoding`` directive appeared within the first two lines. (Github issue 2632) * Cython generated modules no longer emit a warning during import when the size of the NumPy array type is larger than what was found at compile time. Instead, this is assumed to be a backwards compatible change on NumPy side. Other changes ------------- * Cython now emits a warning when no ``language_level`` (2, 3 or '3str') is set explicitly, neither as a ``cythonize()`` option nor as a compiler directive. This is meant to prepare the transition of the default language level from currently Py2 to Py3, since that is what most new users will expect these days. The future default will, however, not enforce unicode literals, because this has proven a major obstacle in the support for both Python 2.x and 3.x. The next major release is intended to make this change, so that it will parse all code that does not request a specific language level as Python 3 code, but with ``str`` literals. The language level 2 will continue to be supported for an indefinite time. * The documentation was restructured, cleaned up and examples are now tested. The NumPy tutorial was also rewritten to simplify the running example. Contributed by Gabriel de Marmiesse. (Github issue 2245) * Cython compiles less of its own modules at build time to reduce the installed package size to about half of its previous size. This makes the compiler slightly slower, by about 5-7%. ``` ### 0.28.6 ``` =================== Bugs fixed ---------- * Extensions compiled with MinGW-64 under Windows could misinterpret integer objects larger than 15 bit and return incorrect results. (Github issue 2670) * Multiplied string literals lost their factor when they are part of another constant expression (e.g. 'x' * 10 + 'y' => 'xy'). ``` ### 0.28.5 ``` =================== Bugs fixed ---------- * The discouraged usage of GCC's attribute ``optimize("Os")`` was replaced by the similar attribute ``cold`` to reduce the code impact of the module init functions. (Github issue 2494) * A reference leak in Py2.x was fixed when comparing str to unicode for equality. ``` ### 0.28.4 ``` =================== Bugs fixed ---------- * Reallowing ``tp_clear()`` in a subtype of an ``no_gc_clear`` extension type generated an invalid C function call to the (non-existent) base type implementation. (Github issue 2309) * Exception catching based on a non-literal (runtime) tuple could fail to match the exception. (Github issue 2425) * Compile fix for CPython 3.7.0a2. (Github issue 2477) ``` ### 0.28.3 ``` =================== Bugs fixed ---------- * Set iteration was broken in non-CPython since 0.28. * ``UnicodeEncodeError`` in Py2 when ``%s`` formatting is optimised for unicode strings. (Github issue 2276) * Work around a crash bug in g++ 4.4.x by disabling the size reduction setting of the module init function in this version. (Github issue 2235) * Crash when exceptions occur early during module initialisation. (Github issue 2199) ``` ### 0.28.2 ``` =================== Features added -------------- * ``abs()`` is faster for Python long objects. * The C++11 methods ``front()`` and ``end()`` were added to the declaration of ``libcpp.string``. Patch by Alex Huszagh. (Github issue 2123) * The C++11 methods ``reserve()`` and ``bucket_count()`` are declared for ``libcpp.unordered_map``. Patch by Valentin Valls. (Github issue 2168) Bugs fixed ---------- * The copy of a read-only memoryview was considered read-only as well, whereas a common reason to copy a read-only view is to make it writable. The result of the copying is now a writable buffer by default. (Github issue 2134) * The ``switch`` statement generation failed to apply recursively to the body of converted if-statements. * ``NULL`` was sometimes rejected as exception return value when the returned type is a fused pointer type. Patch by Callie LeFave. (Github issue 2177) * Fixed compatibility with PyPy 5.11. Patch by Matti Picus. (Github issue 2165) Other changes ------------- * The NumPy tutorial was rewritten to use memoryviews instead of the older buffer declaration syntax. Contributed by Gabriel de Marmiesse. (Github issue 2162) ``` ### 0.28.1 ``` =================== Bugs fixed ---------- * ``PyFrozenSet_New()`` was accidentally used in PyPy where it is missing from the C-API. * Assignment between some C++ templated types were incorrectly rejected when the templates mix ``const`` with ``ctypedef``. (Github issue 2148) * Undeclared C++ no-args constructors in subclasses could make the compilation fail if the base class constructor was declared without ``nogil``. (Github issue 2157) * Bytes %-formatting inferred ``basestring`` (bytes or unicode) as result type in some cases where ``bytes`` would have been safe to infer. (Github issue 2153) * ``None`` was accidentally disallowed as typed return value of ``dict.pop()``. (Github issue 2152) ``` ### 0.28 ``` ================= Features added -------------- * Cdef classes can now multiply inherit from ordinary Python classes. (The primary base must still be a c class, possibly ``object``, and the other bases must *not* be cdef classes.) * Type inference is now supported for Pythran compiled NumPy expressions. Patch by Nils Braun. (Github issue 1954) * The ``const`` modifier can be applied to memoryview declarations to allow read-only buffers as input. (Github issues 1605, 1869) * C code in the docstring of a ``cdef extern`` block is copied verbatimly into the generated file. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer. (Github issue 1915) * When compiling with gcc, the module init function is now tuned for small code size instead of whatever compile flags were provided externally. Cython now also disables some code intensive optimisations in that function to further reduce the code size. (Github issue 2102) * Decorating an async coroutine with ``cython.iterable_coroutine`` changes its type at compile time to make it iterable. While this is not strictly in line with PEP-492, it improves the interoperability with old-style coroutines that use ``yield from`` instead of ``await``. * The IPython magic has preliminary support for JupyterLab. (Github issue 1775) * The new TSS C-API in CPython 3.7 is supported and has been backported. Patch by Naotoshi Seo. (Github issue 1932) * Cython knows the new ``Py_tss_t`` type defined in PEP-539 and automatically initialises variables declared with that type to ``Py_tss_NEEDS_INIT``, a value which cannot be used outside of static assignments. * The set methods ``.remove()`` and ``.discard()`` are optimised. Patch by Antoine Pitrou. (Github issue 2042) * ``dict.pop()`` is optimised. Original patch by Antoine Pitrou. (Github issue 2047) * Iteration over sets and frozensets is optimised. (Github issue 2048) * Safe integer loops (< range(2^30)) are automatically optimised into C loops. * ``alist.extend([a,b,c])`` is optimised into sequential ``list.append()`` calls for short literal sequences. * Calls to builtin methods that are not specifically optimised into C-API calls now use a cache that avoids repeated lookups of the underlying C function. (Github issue 2054) * Single argument function calls can avoid the argument tuple creation in some cases. * Some redundant extension type checks are avoided. * Formatting C enum values in f-strings is faster, as well as some other special cases. * String formatting with the '%' operator is optimised into f-strings in simple cases. * Subscripting (item access) is faster in some cases. * Some ``bytearray`` operations have been optimised similar to ``bytes``. * Some PEP-484/526 container type declarations are now considered for loop optimisations. * Indexing into memoryview slices with ``view[i][j]`` is now optimised into ``view[i, j]``. * Python compatible ``cython.*`` types can now be mixed with type declarations in Cython syntax. * Name lookups in the module and in classes are faster. * Python attribute lookups on extension types without instance dict are faster. * Some missing signals were added to ``libc/signal.pxd``. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer. (Github issue 1914) * The warning about repeated extern declarations is now visible by default. (Github issue 1874) * The exception handling of the function types used by CPython's type slot functions was corrected to match the de-facto standard behaviour, so that code that uses them directly benefits from automatic and correct exception propagation. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer. (Github issue 1980) * Defining the macro ``CYTHON_NO_PYINIT_EXPORT`` will prevent the module init function from being exported as symbol, e.g. when linking modules statically in an embedding setup. Patch by AraHaan. (Github issue 1944) Bugs fixed ---------- * If a module name is explicitly provided for an ``Extension()`` that is compiled via ``cythonize()``, it was previously ignored and replaced by the source file name. It can now be used to override the target module name, e.g. for compiling prefixed accelerator modules from Python files. (Github issue 2038) * The arguments of the ``num_threads`` parameter of parallel sections were not sufficiently validated and could lead to invalid C code. (Github issue 1957) * Catching exceptions with a non-trivial exception pattern could call into CPython with a live exception set. This triggered incorrect behaviour and crashes, especially in CPython 3.7. * The signature of the special ``__richcmp__()`` method was corrected to recognise the type of the first argument as ``self``. It was previously treated as plain object, but CPython actually guarantees that it always has the correct type. Note: this can change the semantics of user code that previously relied on ``self`` being untyped. * Some Python 3 exceptions were not recognised as builtins when running Cython under Python 2. * Some async helper functions were not defined in the generated C code when compiling simple async code. (Github issue 2075) * Line tracing did not include generators and coroutines. (Github issue 1949) * C++ declarations for ``unordered_map`` were corrected. Patch by Michael Schatzow. (Github issue 1484) * Iterator declarations in C++ ``deque`` and ``vector`` were corrected. Patch by Alex Huszagh. (Github issue 1870) * The const modifiers in the C++ ``string`` declarations were corrected, together with the coercion behaviour of string literals into C++ strings. (Github issue 2132) * Some declaration types in ``libc.limits`` were corrected. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer. (Github issue 2016) * ``cython.final`` was not accepted on Python classes with an ``cython.cclass`` decorator. (Github issue 2040) * Cython no longer creates useless and incorrect ``PyInstanceMethod`` wrappers for methods in Python 3. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer. (Github issue 2105) * The builtin ``bytearray`` type could not be used as base type of cdef classes. (Github issue 2106) Other changes ------------- ``` ### 0.27.3 ``` =================== Bugs fixed ---------- * String forward references to extension types like ``cython.locals(x="ExtType")`` failed to find the named type. (Github issue 1962) * NumPy slicing generated incorrect results when compiled with Pythran. Original patch by Serge Guelton (Github issue 1946). * Fix "undefined reference" linker error for generators on Windows in Py3.3-3.5. (Github issue 1968) * Adapt to recent C-API change of ``PyThreadState`` in CPython 3.7. * Fix signature of ``PyWeakref_GetObject()`` API declaration. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer (Github issue 1975). ``` ### 0.27.2 ``` =================== Bugs fixed ---------- * Comprehensions could incorrectly be optimised away when they appeared in boolean test contexts. (Github issue 1920) * The special methods ``__eq__``, ``__lt__`` etc. in extension types did not type their first argument as the type of the class but ``object``. (Github issue 1935) * Crash on first lookup of "cline_in_traceback" option during exception handling. (Github issue 1907) * Some nested module level comprehensions failed to compile. (Github issue 1906) * Compiler crash on some complex type declarations in pure mode. (Github issue 1908) * ``std::unordered_map.erase()`` was declared with an incorrect ``void`` return type in ``libcpp.unordered_map``. (Github issue 1484) * Invalid use of C++ ``fallthrough`` attribute before C++11 and similar issue in clang. (Github issue 1930) * Compiler crash on misnamed properties. (Github issue 1905) ``` ### 0.27.1 ``` =================== Features added -------------- * The Jupyter magic has a new debug option ``--verbose`` that shows details about the distutils invocation. Patch by Boris Filippov (Github issue 1881). Bugs fixed ---------- * Py3 list comprehensions in class bodies resulted in invalid C code. (Github issue 1889) * Modules built for later CPython 3.5.x versions failed to import in 3.5.0/3.5.1. (Github issue 1880) * Deallocating fused types functions and methods kept their GC tracking enabled, which could potentially lead to recursive deallocation attempts. * Crash when compiling in C++ mode with old setuptools versions. (Github issue 1879) * C++ object arguments for the constructor of Cython implemented C++ are now passed by reference and not by value to allow for non-copyable arguments, such as ``unique_ptr``. * API-exported C++ classes with Python object members failed to compile. (Github issue 1866) * Some issues with the new relaxed exception value handling were resolved. * Python classes as annotation types could prevent compilation. (Github issue 1887) * Cython annotation types in Python files could lead to import failures with a "cython undefined" error. Recognised types are now turned into strings. * Coverage analysis could fail to report on extension modules on some platforms. * Annotations could be parsed (and rejected) as types even with ``annotation_typing=False``. Other changes ------------- * PEP 489 support has been disabled by default to counter incompatibilities with import setups that try to reload or reinitialise modules. ``` ### 0.27 ``` ================= Features added -------------- * Extension module initialisation follows `PEP 489 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0489/>`_ in CPython 3.5+, which resolves several differences with regard to normal Python modules. This makes the global names ``__file__`` and ``__path__`` correctly available to module level code and improves the support for module-level relative imports. (Github issues 1715, 1753, 1035) * Asynchronous generators (`PEP 525 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0525/>`_) and asynchronous comprehensions (`PEP 530 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0530/>`_) have been implemented. Note that async generators require finalisation support in order to allow for asynchronous operations during cleanup, which is only available in CPython 3.6+. All other functionality has been backported as usual. * Variable annotations are now parsed according to `PEP 526 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0526/>`_. Cython types (e.g. ``cython.int``) are evaluated as C type declarations and everything else as Python types. This can be disabled with the directive ``annotation_typing=False``. Note that most complex PEP-484 style annotations are currently ignored. This will change in future releases. (Github issue 1850) * Extension types (also in pure Python mode) can implement the normal special methods ``__eq__``, ``__lt__`` etc. for comparisons instead of the low-level ``__richcmp__`` method. (Github issue 690) * New decorator ``cython.exceptval(x=None, check=False)`` that makes the signature declarations ``except x``, ``except? x`` and ``except *`` available to pure Python code. Original patch by Antonio Cuni. (Github issue 1653) * Signature annotations are now included in the signature docstring generated by the ``embedsignature`` directive. Patch by Lisandro Dalcin (Github issue 1781). * The gdb support for Python code (``libpython.py``) was updated to the latest version in CPython 3.7 (git rev 5fe59f8). * The compiler tries to find a usable exception return value for cdef functions with ``except *`` if the returned type allows it. Note that this feature is subject to safety limitations, so it is still better to provide an explicit declaration. * C functions can be assigned to function pointers with a compatible exception declaration, not only with exact matches. A side-effect is that certain compatible signature overrides are now allowed and some more mismatches of exception signatures are now detected and rejected as errors that were not detected before. * The IPython/Jupyter magic integration has a new option ``%%cython --pgo`` for profile guided optimisation. It compiles the cell with PGO settings for the C compiler, executes it to generate a runtime profile, and then compiles it again using that profile for C compiler optimisation. Currently only tested with gcc. * ``len(memoryview)`` can be used in nogil sections to get the size of the first dimension of a memory view (``shape[0]``). (Github issue 1733) * C++ classes can now contain (properly refcounted) Python objects. * NumPy dtype subarrays are now accessible through the C-API. Patch by Gerald Dalley (Github issue 245). * Resolves several issues with PyPy and uses faster async slots in PyPy3. Patch by Ronan Lamy (Github issues 1871, 1878). Bugs fixed ---------- * Extension types that were cimported from other Cython modules could disagree about the order of fused cdef methods in their call table. This could lead to wrong methods being called and potentially also crashes. The fix required changes to the ordering of fused methods in the call table, which may break existing compiled modules that call fused cdef methods across module boundaries, if these methods were implemented in a different order than they were declared in the corresponding .pxd file. (Github issue 1873) * The exception state handling in generators and coroutines could lead to exceptions in the caller being lost if an exception was raised and handled inside of the coroutine when yielding. (Github issue 1731) * Loops over ``range(enum)`` were not converted into C for-loops. Note that it is still recommended to use an explicit cast to a C integer type in this case. * Error positions of names (e.g. variables) were incorrectly reported after the name and not at the beginning of the name. * Compile time ``DEF`` assignments were evaluated even when they occur inside of falsy ``IF`` blocks. (Github issue 1796) * Disabling the line tracing from a trace function could fail. Original patch by Dmitry Trofimov. (Github issue 1769) * Several issues with the Pythran integration were resolved. * abs(signed int) now returns a signed rather than unsigned int. (Github issue 1837) * Reading ``frame.f_locals`` of a Cython function (e.g. from a debugger or profiler could modify the module globals. (Github issue 1836) * Buffer type mismatches in the NumPy buffer support could leak a reference to the buffer owner. * Using the "is_f_contig" and "is_c_contig" memoryview methods together could leave one of them undeclared. (Github issue 1872) * Compilation failed if the for-in-range loop target was not a variable but a more complex expression, e.g. an item assignment. (Github issue 1831) * Compile time evaluations of (partially) constant f-strings could show incorrect results. * Escape sequences in raw f-strings (``fr'...'``) were resolved instead of passing them through as expected. * Some ref-counting issues in buffer error handling have been resolved. Other changes ------------- * Type declarations in signature annotations are now parsed according to `PEP 484 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/>`_ typing. Only Cython types (e.g. ``cython.int``) and Python builtin types are currently considered as type declarations. Everything else is ignored, but this will change in a future Cython release. (Github issue 1672) * The directive ``annotation_typing`` is now ``True`` by default, which enables parsing type declarations from annotations. * This release no longer supports Python 3.2. ``` ### 0.26.1 ``` =================== Features added -------------- Bugs fixed ---------- * ``cython.view.array`` was missing ``.__len__()``. * Extension types with a ``.pxd`` override for their ``__releasebuffer__`` slot (e.g. as provided by Cython for the Python ``array.array`` type) could leak a reference to the buffer owner on release, thus not freeing the memory. (Github issue 1638) * Auto-decoding failed in 0.26 for strings inside of C++ containers. (Github issue 1790) * Compile error when inheriting from C++ container types. (Github issue 1788) * Invalid C code in generators (declaration after code). (Github issue 1801) * Arithmetic operations on ``const`` integer variables could generate invalid code. (Github issue 1798) * Local variables with names of special Python methods failed to compile inside of closures. (Github issue 1797) * Problem with indirect Emacs buffers in cython-mode. Patch by Martin Albrecht (Github issue 1743). * Extension types named ``result`` or ``PickleError`` generated invalid unpickling code. Patch by Jason Madden (Github issue 1786). * Bazel integration failed to compile ``.py`` files. Patch by Guro Bokum (Github issue 1784). * Some include directories and dependencies were referenced with their absolute paths in the generated files despite lying within the project directory. * Failure to compile in Py3.7 due to a modified signature of ``_PyCFunctionFast()`` ``` ### 0.26 ``` ================= Features added -------------- * Pythran can be used as a backend for evaluating NumPy array expressions. Patch by Adrien Guinet (Github issue 1607). * cdef classes now support pickling by default when possible. This can be disabled with the ``auto_pickle`` directive. * Speed up comparisons of strings if their hash value is available. Patch by Claudio Freire (Github issue 1571). * Support pyximport from zip files. Patch by Sergei Lebedev (Github issue 1485). * IPython magic now respects the ``__all__`` variable and ignores names with leading-underscore (like ``import *`` does). Patch by Syrtis Major (Github issue 1625). * ``abs()`` is optimised for C complex numbers. Patch by da-woods (Github issue 1648). * The display of C lines in Cython tracebacks can now be enabled at runtime via ``import cython_runtime; cython_runtime.cline_in_traceback=True``. The default has been changed to False. * The overhead of calling fused types generic functions was reduced. * "cdef extern" include files are now also searched relative to the current file. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer (Github issue 1654). * Optional optimization for re-aquiring the GIL, controlled by the `fast_gil` directive. Bugs fixed ---------- * Item lookup/assignment with a unicode character as index that is typed (explicitly or implicitly) as ``Py_UCS4`` or ``Py_UNICODE`` used the integer value instead of the Unicode string value. Code that relied on the previous behaviour now triggers a warning that can be disabled by applying an explicit cast. (Github issue 1602) * f-string processing was adapted to changes in PEP 498 and CPython 3.6. * Invalid C code when decoding from UTF-16(LE/BE) byte strings. (Github issue 1696) * Unicode escapes in 'ur' raw-unicode strings were not resolved in Py2 code. Original patch by Aaron Gallagher (Github issue 1594). * File paths of code objects are now relative. Original patch by Jelmer Vernooij (Github issue 1565). * Decorators of cdef class methods could be executed twice. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer (Github issue 1724). * Dict iteration using the Py2 ``iter*`` methods failed in PyPy3. Patch by Armin Rigo (Github issue 1631). * Several warnings in the generated code are now suppressed. Other changes ------------- * The ``unraisable_tracebacks`` option now defaults to ``True``. * Coercion of C++ containers to Python is no longer automatic on attribute access (Github issue 1521). * Access to Python attributes of cimported modules without the corresponding import is now a compile-time (rather than runtime) error. * Do not use special dll linkage for "cdef public" functions. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer (Github issue 1687). * cdef/cpdef methods must match their declarations. See Github Issue 1732. This is now a warning and will be an error in future releases. ``` ### 0.25.2 ``` =================== Bugs fixed ---------- * Fixes several issues with C++ template deduction. * Fixes a issue with bound method type inference (Github issue 551). * Fixes a bug with cascaded tuple assignment (Github issue 1523). * Fixed or silenced many Clang warnings. * Fixes bug with powers of pure real complex numbers (Github issue 1538). ``` ### 0.25.1 ``` =================== Bugs fixed ---------- * Fixes a bug with ``isinstance(o, Exception)`` (Github issue 1496). * Fixes bug with ``cython.view.array`` missing utility code in some cases (Github issue 1502). Other changes ------------- * The distutils extension ``Cython.Distutils.build_ext`` has been reverted, temporarily, to be ``old_build_ext`` to give projects time to migrate. The new build_ext is available as ``new_build_ext``. ``` ### 0.25 ``` ================= Features added -------------- * def/cpdef methods of cdef classes benefit from Cython's internal function implementation, which enables introspection and line profiling for them. Implementation sponsored by Turbostream (www.turbostream-cfd.com). * Calls to Python functions are faster, following the recent "FastCall" optimisations that Victor Stinner implemented for CPython 3.6. See https://bugs.python.org/issue27128 and related issues. * The new METH_FASTCALL calling convention for PyCFunctions is supported in CPython 3.6. See https://bugs.python.org/issue27810 * Initial support for using Cython modules in Pyston. Patch by Boxiang Sun. * Dynamic Python attributes are allowed on cdef classes if an attribute ``cdef dict __dict__`` is declared in the class. Patch by empyrical. * Cython implemented C++ classes can make direct calls to base class methods. Patch by empyrical. * C++ classes can now have typedef members. STL containers updated with value_type. * New directive ``cython.no_gc`` to fully disable GC for a cdef class. Patch by Claudio Freire. * Buffer variables are no longer excluded from ``locals()``. Patch by da-woods. * Building f-strings is faster, especially when formatting C integers. * for-loop iteration over "std::string". * ``libc/math.pxd`` provides ``e`` and ``pi`` as alias constants to simplify usage as a drop-in replacement for Python's math module. * Speed up cython.inline(). * Binary lshift operations with small constant Python integers are faster. * Some integer operations on Python long objects are faster in Python 2.7. * Support for the C++ ``typeid`` operator. * Support for bazel using a the pyx_library rule in //Tools:rules.bzl. Significant Bugs fixed ---------------------- * Division of complex numbers avoids overflow by using Smith's method. * Some function signatures in ``libc.math`` and ``numpy.pxd`` were incorrect. Patch by Michael Seifert. Other changes ------------- * The "%%cython" IPython/jupyter magic now defaults to the language level of the current jupyter kernel. The language level can be set explicitly with "%%cython -2" or "%%cython -3". * The distutils extension ``Cython.Distutils.build_ext`` has now been updated to use cythonize which properly handles dependencies. The old extension can still be found in ``Cython.Distutils.old_build_ext`` and is now deprecated. * ``directive_defaults`` is no longer available in ``Cython.Compiler.Options``, use ``get_directive_defaults()`` instead. ``` ### 0.24.1 ``` =================== Bugs fixed ---------- * IPython cell magic was lacking a good way to enable Python 3 code semantics. It can now be used as "%%cython -3". * Follow a recent change in `PEP 492 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492/>`_ and CPython 3.5.2 that now requires the ``__aiter__()`` method of asynchronous iterators to be a simple ``def`` method instead of an ``async def`` method. * Coroutines and generators were lacking the ``__module__`` special attribute. * C++ ``std::complex`` values failed to auto-convert from and to Python complex objects. * Namespaced C++ types could not be used as memory view types due to lack of name mangling. Patch by Ivan Smirnov. * Assignments between identical C++ types that were declared with differently typedefed template types could fail. * Rebuilds could fail to evaluate dependency timestamps in C++ mode. Patch by Ian Henriksen. * Macros defined in the ``distutils`` compiler option do not require values anymore. Patch by Ian Henriksen. * Minor fixes for MSVC, Cygwin and PyPy. ```Links
- PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/cython - Changelog: https://pyup.io/changelogs/cython/ - Homepage: http://cython.org/