[Python-Dev] Where is PyMarshal_ReadShortFromFile() ? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:54:48 -0400

Of course, it would be easy to write the little bit of LaTeX needed to document the new function. It would have the added benefit that I'd need to document the rest of the PyMarshal*() functions so the new function would have a place to be listed. Or all sorts of PyMarshal*() functions could magically grow a leading underscore. ;-) Guido, were all of these really intended to be public, or can the list be trimmed back? They really only appear to be used in import.c and pythonrun.c, with the module init also appear in PC/config.c and Modules/config.c.in (and the generated Modules/config.c).

Hm. I consider them pretty internal, but on the other hand there are uses for these outside the core (e.g. a hypothetical extension that might want to manipulate .pyc files). So let's document them.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)