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For the specific case of packaging whole applications, whether they contain extensions built with Cython or not, there are much better and much more general tools available, e.g. pyinstaller and...
I agree that this is annoying. We should fix it. See the examples in https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cython-users/a7f3bd42-8530-464c-8d86-246dbbe17c57%40googlegroups.com
Also see #863.
Yes, absolutely. And also #4570 (PEP 614, expressions as decorators), while we're at it.
> why not use the built in `ast` module That's a tough call. It would be nice to just use `ast` – if we can switch entirely to Python syntax....
Yes, being able to generate the code directly on the platform that the user has on their side is a valuable advantage.
It's somewhere between 3.2 and never.
>Is there no tests specifially for the parser/syntax? The parser rarely changes compared to all the rest and is mostly tested through the bulk of feature file tests, which, luckily...
Note that this ticket is about refactoring the parser, not about replacing it. > Some of the benifits are: > * Formulated grammar, which will make it easier to make...
I'd be fine with adding the necessary C macro guards and duplicated implementations to the C code that Cython generates. But it's probably a lot of work. The "limited API"...