[Python-Dev] Moving forward on the object memory API (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
01 Apr 2002 17:19:25 +0200

Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes:

> I'd be in favour of renaming them, thus actively breaking extension > modules that use them at compile time.

That would break every extension type written for 1.5.2; the relevant ones from Neil's random sampling are:

There are different levels of breakage, though: low: generates a warning when invoked middle: fails to compile high: compiles, but corrupts memory at run-time

If even the middle level is too much breakage, I'd be in favour of deprecating things in the low level: map them to a function that produces a warning when invoked.

Regards, Martin