From d3e89c97246b8820f2572ee7d5dd0fd346e72689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Behnel <scoder@users.berlios.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:08:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] don't allow pointer assignments to Python variables (except
 for char*)

---
 Cython/Compiler/PyrexTypes.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Cython/Compiler/PyrexTypes.py b/Cython/Compiler/PyrexTypes.py
index 47182132..74fa88fb 100644
--- a/Cython/Compiler/PyrexTypes.py
+++ b/Cython/Compiler/PyrexTypes.py
@@ -336,7 +336,8 @@ class PyObjectType(PyrexType):
         return "<PyObjectType>"
     
     def assignable_from(self, src_type):
-        return 1 # Conversion will be attempted
+        # except for pointers, conversion will be attempted
+        return not src_type.is_ptr or src_type.is_string
         
     def declaration_code(self, entity_code, 
             for_display = 0, dll_linkage = None, pyrex = 0):
-- 
2.26.2