Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.006 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:error': 0.03; 'url:bitbucket': 0.05; 'string': 0.09; 'highlighting': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'cc:addr :python-list': 0.11; '.........': 0.16; 'bitbucket': 0.16; 'conditional': 0.16; 'parameters,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'properly': 0.19; 'url:default': 0.19; 'later': 0.20; 'seems': 0.21; 'separate': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'define': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'correct': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'lines': 0.31; 'that.': 0.31; 'apparently': 0.31; 'gcc': 0.31; 'actual': 0.34; 'maybe': 0.34; 'problem.': 0.35; 'editor': 0.35; 'etc': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; "didn't": 0.36; "i'll": 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'too': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'use.': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'dave': 0.60; "you're": 0.61; 'url:c': 0.67; 'legal': 0.71; 'internet': 0.71; 'received:109': 0.72; 'done;': 0.84; 'pasting': 0.84; 'sfxlen:4': 0.84; 'angel': 0.91; 'pfxlen:big': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Robin Becker Subject: Re: PyDoc_STRVAR error in msvc compile Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:46:36 +0100 References: <524AFB57.9090500@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <524B05B7.4060906@mrabarnett.plus.com> <524BE099.8040004@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <524BEEFD.50202@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <524C035F.6030000@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: python-list@python.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 109.174.168.73 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1380721610 news.xs4all.nl 15991 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:58607 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:55339 On 02/10/2013 13:05, Dave Angel wrote: > On 2/10/2013 07:28, Robin Becker wrote: > > >> The actual is this code from _renderPM.c >> >> https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/src/fa65fe72b6c2aaecb7747bf14884adb996d8e87f/src/rl_addons/renderPM/_renderPM.c?at=default >> ........ >> at the end of the lines etc etc. > > Unfortunately, bitbucket doesn't properly support highlighting either, > so I had to copy/paste it into an editor to check for extra spaces. > That's apparently not your problem. > > What I didn't understand before is that PyDoc_STRVAR is a macro, not a > function. And inside the macro's parameters, you're trying to define an > #ifdef. i don't think Microsoft supports that. > > If I'm right, you need to separate out the conditional string > concatenation from the macro expansion. it's been too long for me even > to remember the correct way to do that. There are some legal tricks you > can use. Maybe search the internet for "preprocessor stringizing". . that's what I have done; it seems to work OK for MSVC and I'll have to check later if it breaks GCC or if I need to do token pasting or something. -- Robin Becker