[Python-Dev] Moving forward on the object memory API (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
01 Apr 2002 09:47:55 +0200

Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes:

[martin@v.loewis.de] > The third part is easy to answer. If it is deprecated, and used in the > core or an extension, that use must be removed.

This is too easy of an answer, as the docs already make such distinctions. Read the tail end of the PyMem docs (PyMemUPPERCASE is supposedly already deprecated, but only in extension modules).

There is something wrong here, then. The author of this documentation clearly meant that they are internal, and thus should have been called _PyMem_UPPERCASE.

I'd be in favour of renaming them, thus actively breaking extension modules that use them at compile time.

Regards, Martin