[Python-3000] A better way to initialize PyTypeObject (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Sat Dec 2 21🔞24 CET 2006

Talin wrote:

So I don't think it's the case that nobody's even bothered to look at Larry's patch

so are you basing your patch on his work?

People have looked at the patch and suggested taking a different approach.

really? I haven't seen much of a consensus for the string-literals instead of constants approach, especially not from experienced extension writers. personally, I think it's butt-ugly, a lot more error-prone than any alternative, and I also doubt that it'll save much space in practice. it also ignores history; the Xt developers tried the same thing, and ended up adding #define's for all their string literals to get a least a little help from the compiler...

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