[Python-Dev] Handling deprecations in the face of PEP 384 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Apr 21 07:00:42 CEST 2012

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

Yeah, PyImporterGetMagicTag() looks like a public API, parallel with PyImporterGetMagicNumber(). Maybe it was accidentally not documented? I'm not sure when it was introduced. Should we even deprecate it? I'd say do the same thing you're doing for GetMagicNumber().

I'd keep it and just make it a convenience wrapper for the call back into the Python code.

NullImporterType looks like it was accidentally not made static, so don't fret about that.

Yeah, the lack of the Py_ prefix suggests this one being visible is just an accident of the implementation, and the name is unusual enough that it never caused a symbol collision for any third parties.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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