[Python-Dev] C99 code in the Python core? (original) (raw)

Matthieu Brucher matthieu.brucher at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 11:59:13 CEST 2008

2008/7/5 Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com>:

I have a general question and a specific question. First the general one:

(1) When is it okay to use C99 code in the Python core? More particularly, is it considered acceptable to use widely-implemented library functions that are specified in C99 but not ANSI C, or widely-implemented features that are new to C99? Or is C99 code now acceptable pretty much anywhere? If so, should PEP 7 be updated? It currently says: """Use ANSI/ISO standard C (the 1989 version of the standard).""" I think there are some C99 features that still aren't implemented everywhere, even on major platforms. (Examples are the inverse hyperbolic trig functions in math.h.)

Hi,

I don't think that C99 is not supported by Visual Studio and there are no plan for Microsoft to do so.

Matthieu

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