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enhancements locals
robertwb edited this page Mar 7, 2008
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def foo(x): print y y = x
Works in Cython (printing None) but throws an error in Python. This is because all local variables are set to None at the top of a function.
Instead, all locals should be set to 0, with an error being raised on incorrect use. A question is whether or not the C compiler is smart enough to eliminate this check once assignment has been made (especially if it is directly, e.g. via a c attribute). Would the resulting incref be enough?
Some code flow analysis could also be done to clear variables only in the blocks they are used.