Cython for Visual Studio Code

Syntax highlighting for Cython source files.

Supported file types

Extension	Description
.pyx	Cython implementation files
.pxd	Cython declaration files (headers)
.pxi	Cython include files

Highlighted syntax

Declarations

• Keywords: cdef, cpdef, ctypedef, fused, cppclass
• Struct, union, and enum declarations

Types

• C types: void, char, short, int, long, float, double, bint, Py_ssize_t, wchar_t, Py_buffer, and more
• Fixed-width integers: int8_t, uint8_t, int32_t, uint64_t, intptr_t, etc.

Modifiers

• public, readonly, inline, api, packed, extern, signed, unsigned, const

Imports

• cimport and include directives
• extern from blocks

C++ support

• cppclass, new, namespace
• C++ exception specs: except +, except +*

Cython decorators

• @cython.boundscheck, @cython.wraparound, @cython.cdivision, and all other @cython.* decorators

Parallelism

• prange and parallel from cython.parallel
• GIL management: nogil, gil

Compile-time

• Conditionals: DEF, IF, ELIF, ELSE

Constants

• NULL

Python fallthrough

• All standard Python syntax via embedded source.python grammar

License

MIT