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On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, 17:06 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
On 8/29/2016 5:38 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> who objected to the new field did either for memory ("it adds another
> pointer to the struct that won't be typically used"), or for conceptual
> reasons ("the code object is immutable and you're proposing a mutable
> field"). The latter is addressed by not exposing the field in Python and
Am I correct is thinking that you will also not add the new field as an
argument to PyCode_New?
Correct.
> clearly stating that code should never expect the field to be filled.
I interpret this as "The only code that should access the field should
be code that put something there."
Yep, seems like a reasonable rule to follow.
-brett
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Terry Jan Reedy
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