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Philip Herron
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Philip Herron is a developer who focuses his passion toward compilers and virtual machine implementations. When he was first accepted to Google Summer of Code 2010, he used inspiration from Paul Biggar's PhD on the optimization of dynamic languages to develop a proof of the concept GCC frontend to compile Python. This project sparked his deep interest in how Python works. After completing a consecutive year on the same project in 2011, Philip applied to Cython under the Python foundation to gain a deeper appreciation of the standard Python implementation. Through this he started leveraging the advantages of Python to control the logic in systems or even add more high-level interfaces, such as embedding Flask web servers in a REST API to a system-level piece of software, without writing any C code. Philip currently works as a software consultant for Instil Software based in Northern Ireland. He develops mobile applications with embedded native code for video streaming. Instil has given him a lot of support in becoming a better engineer. He has written several tutorials for the UK-based Linux Format magazine on Python and loves to share his passion for the Python programming language.
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Overloading


Since Python supports overloading to wrap C++ overload, just list the members as normal:

cdef foobar (int)
cdef foobar (int, int)
…

Cython understands that we are in C++ mode and can handle all the type conversion as normal. It's interesting that it can also handle an operator overload easily since it is just another hook! For example, let's take the Car class again and perform some operator overriding such as the following:

namespace mynamespace {
  class Car {
    int doors;
    int wheels;
  public:
    Car ();
    ~Car ();
    Car * operator+(Car *);
    void printCar (void);
    void setWheels (int x) { wheels = x; };
    void setDoors (int x) { doors = x; };
  };
};

Remember to add these operator-overloading class members to your Cythonized class; otherwise, your Cython will throw the following error:

Invalid operand types for '+' (Car *; Car *)

The Cython declaration of the operator overload looks as you expected:

cdef extern from "cppcode.h" namespace "mynamespace":
    cppclass...
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Philip Herron is a developer who focuses his passion toward compilers and virtual machine implementations. When he was first accepted to Google Summer of Code 2010, he used inspiration from Paul Biggar's PhD on the optimization of dynamic languages to develop a proof of the concept GCC frontend to compile Python. This project sparked his deep interest in how Python works. After completing a consecutive year on the same project in 2011, Philip applied to Cython under the Python foundation to gain a deeper appreciation of the standard Python implementation. Through this he started leveraging the advantages of Python to control the logic in systems or even add more high-level interfaces, such as embedding Flask web servers in a REST API to a system-level piece of software, without writing any C code. Philip currently works as a software consultant for Instil Software based in Northern Ireland. He develops mobile applications with embedded native code for video streaming. Instil has given him a lot of support in becoming a better engineer. He has written several tutorials for the UK-based Linux Format magazine on Python and loves to share his passion for the Python programming language.
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