0.12 (2009-11-23)

Features added

• Type inference with the infer_types directive
• Seamless C++ complex support
• Fast extension type instantiation using the normal Python meme obj = MyType.new(MyType)
• Improved support for Py3.1
• Cython now runs under Python 3.x using the 2to3 tool
• unittest support for doctests in Cython modules
• Optimised handling of C strings (char*): for c in cstring[2:50] and cstring.decode()
• Looping over c pointers: for i in intptr[:50].
• pyximport improvements
• cython_freeze improvements

Bugs fixed

• Many bug fixes

Other changes

• Many other optimisation, e.g. enumerate() loops, parallel swap assignments (a,b = b,a), and unicode.encode()
• More complete numpy.pxd