[Python-Dev] Omit Py_buffer struct from Stable ABI for Python 3.2? (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 13:31:11 CET 2011


Currently [1], the implementation and the documentation for PEP 3118's Py_buffer struct don't line up (there's an extra field in the implementation that the PEP doesn't mention).

Accordingly, Mark and I think it may be a good idea to leave this structure (and possibly related APIs) out of the stable ABI for the 3.2 release. I don't think it needs changing, but I'm not 100% certain until we finish working through the problem and realign the implementation and documentation. Applications and extension modules that use this interface would still work - they would just have to wait until 3.3 before they could consider migrating to the stable ABI.

Regards, Nick.

[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue10181

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