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M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

\[Y\]ou're pretty much breaking all 3rd party modules that have just started using e.g the datetime module C API.

Not if they're using PyDateTime\_IMPORT. My understanding is that requiring a recompile is okay, and if you use PyDateTime\_IMPORT and recompile against 2.7 it works fine. As I already mentioned, the exception to this is pyexpat, which provides no such importer macro / function.

I shall await your more fully-fleshed out reply,

larry