Attachment donotuselongstring.patch for http://trac.cython.org/ticket/50

donotuselongstring.patch

# HG changeset patch
# User david@evans-2.local
# Date 1218809165 18000
# Node ID b877bf48ceb22461133fb6d46c6d2dc64b191628
# Parent  94b327b81f1653d9610b792351fb01854c8bedcf
Split docstring around \n for compilers who barf at long string literals (VS 2003).

diff -r 94b327b81f16 -r b877bf48ceb2 Cython/Compiler/Nodes.py
--- a/Cython/Compiler/Nodes.py	Fri Aug 15 15:04:23 2008 +0200
+++ b/Cython/Compiler/Nodes.py	Fri Aug 15 09:06:05 2008 -0500
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from Symtab import ModuleScope, LocalScope, GeneratorLocalScope, \
     StructOrUnionScope, PyClassScope, CClassScope
 from Cython.Utils import open_new_file, replace_suffix
-from StringEncoding import EncodedString, escape_byte_string
+from StringEncoding import EncodedString, escape_byte_string, split_docstring
 import Options
 import ControlFlow
 
@@ -1522,7 +1522,7 @@
             code.putln(
                 'static char %s[] = "%s";' % (
                     self.entry.doc_cname,
-                    escape_byte_string(docstr)))
+                    split_docstring(escape_byte_string(docstr))))
         if with_pymethdef:
             code.put(
                 "static PyMethodDef %s = " % 
diff -r 94b327b81f16 -r b877bf48ceb2 Cython/Compiler/StringEncoding.py
--- a/Cython/Compiler/StringEncoding.py	Fri Aug 15 15:04:23 2008 +0200
+++ b/Cython/Compiler/StringEncoding.py	Fri Aug 15 09:06:05 2008 -0500
@@ -142,3 +142,6 @@
         else:
             append(c)
     return ''.join(l)
+
+def split_docstring(s):
+    return '\\n\"\"'.join(s.split(r'\n'))