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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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