[Python-Dev] Initialization hook for extenders (original) (raw)

Patrick J. Miller patmiller@llnl.gov
Thu, 01 May 2003 09:15:09 -0700

Martin,

Sorry you disagree. I think that the issue is still important and other pieces of the API are already in this direction.

For instance, there is no need to have PyImport_AppendInittab because you can hack config.c (which you can get from $prefix/lib/pythonx.x/config/config.c) and in fact many people did exactly that but it made for a messy extension until the API call made it clean and direct.

You don't need Py_AtExit() because you can call through to atexit.register() to put the function in.

The list goes on...

I still think that Py_AtInit() is clean, symmetric with Py_AtExit(), and solves a big problem for extenders who wish to address localization from within C (as opposed to sitecustomize.py).

This is a 10 line patch with 0 runtime impact that requires no maintanence to move forward with new versions. If it were more than that, I could better understand your objections.

Hope that I can get you to at least vote 0 instead of -1.

Cheers,

Pat

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