Commit a7daacc4 authored by Stefan Behnel's avatar Stefan Behnel

change SageX references to Cython

parent ade90e67
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#
# These are the "SageX" pxi files for (most of) the Python/C API.
#
# SageX = SAGE Pyrex, which is a fork of Pyrex for use in SAGE.
# These are the Cython pxd files for (most of) the Python/C API.
#
# REFERENCE COUNTING:
#
# JUST TO SCARE YOU:
# If you are going to use any of the Python/C API in your SageX
# If you are going to use any of the Python/C API in your Cython
# program, you might be responsible for doing reference counting.
# Read http://docs.python.org/api/refcounts.html which is so
# important I've copied it below.
......@@ -15,10 +13,10 @@
# For all the declaration below, whenver the Py_ function returns
# a *new reference* to a PyObject*, the return type is "object".
# When the function returns a borrowed reference, the return
# type is PyObject*. When SageX sees "object" as a return type
# type is PyObject*. When Cython sees "object" as a return type
# it doesn't increment the reference count. When it sees PyObject*
# in order to use the result you must explicitly cast to <object>,
# and when you do that SageX increments the reference count wether
# and when you do that Cython increments the reference count wether
# you want it to or not, forcing you to an explicit DECREF (or leak memory).
# To avoid this we make the above convention. Note, you can
# always locally override this convention by putting something like
......@@ -26,10 +24,10 @@
# cdef extern from "Python.h":
# PyObject* PyNumber_Add(PyObject *o1, PyObject *o2)
#
# in your file after any .pxi includes. SageX will use the latest
# in your file after any .pxi includes. Cython will use the latest
# declaration.
#
# SageX takes care of this automatically for anything of type object.
# Cython takes care of this automatically for anything of type object.
## More precisely, I think the correct convention for
## using the Python/C API from Pyrex is as follows.
##
......@@ -119,7 +117,6 @@
#
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from python_ref cimport *
from python_exc cimport *
from python_module cimport *
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