[Python-Dev] Remove METH_OLDARGS? (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Tue May 30 08:14:33 CEST 2006


On 5/29/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> OTOH, perhaps a deprecation warning on PyArgsParse() is sufficient? > What about that? It doesn't address other cases where OLDARGS are > used without PyArgsParse though. What other cases remain? People might have complex argument processing procedure not involving PyArgParse, these would just break with a runtime error in Py3k. If the module is maintained, it should be easy to fix it. If the module is unmaintained, producing a warning now might not help, either.

One case would be if the function doesn't take any args, but the args aren't checked, just ignored. Another case I was thinking about was PyArg_NoArgs which is a macro, but that just calls PyArg_Parse, so it would get flagged. I can't imagine there would be enough of these cases to matter.

I'd be satisfied with a deprecation warning for PyArg_Parse, though we (*) should really figure out how to make it work on Windows. I haven't seen anyone object to the C compiler deprecation warning.

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