[Python-Dev] Re: API change in 2.2.1c1 (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:54:11 -0500

Jeremy Hylton writes:

I think the cell change is a pure bug fix. The VAR_HEAD was leftover from the days (perhaps just one day) when I thought that a cell would contain multiple pointers. The cell objects aren't documented (so far as I know) and are only used internally to implemented nested scopes.

http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/cell-objects.html

I'm pretty sure I asked you to proofread that at one point, though I don't recall whether you did.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation