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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:27:23 -0500

> Do we need to bump the API version after these changes?

Why? The API version is for the source API, not the binary API, right?

No, it's for the binary API. There's a test in Py_InitModule() that checks whether a dynamically loaded extension uses the same API as the core, and that's definitely a binary compatibility issue.

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