[Python-Dev] Python's C interface for types (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 01:03:34 CET 2007

[Nick Maclaren]

... 2) PyLongFromByteArray and PyLongAsByteArray aren't in the API

They're not in the public API, which is equivalent to that their names begin with a leading underscore. They're in the private API :-)

and have no comments.

The behavior of these functions, including return value and error conditions, is specified in longobject.h.

Does that mean that they are unstable, in the sense that they may change behaviour in new versions of Python?

They /may/ change, but they won't (== only common sense guarantees they won't change ;-)).

And will they be there in 3.0?

Almost certainly so.