[Python-Dev] Baffled by PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords modification (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Feb 10 18:29:42 CET 2006

On 2/10/06, Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

I added some const to several API functions that take char* but typically called by passing string literals. In C++, a string literal is a const char* so you need to add a constcast<> to every call site, which is incredibly cumbersome. After some discussion on python-dev, I made changes to a small set of API functions and chased the const-ness the rest of the way, as you would expect. There was nothing random about the places const was added.

I still don't understand why this was done, nor how the set of functions was chosen if not randomly.

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