[Python-Dev] Documenting the ssize_t Python C API changes (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Mon Mar 20 22:53:09 CET 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

I really don't understand why you put so much effort into trying to argue that the ssizet patch isn't going to break extensions or that fixing compiler warnings is good enough. Well, in this thread, my main point is that I don't want to provide the list that you demand, mainly because I consider it a waste of my time to create it.

It's not a waste of time at all: you'd be helping lots and lots of developers out there who want to fix their extensions.

Apart from that I can only repeat what I said before: you expect developers to put lots of time into fixing their extensions to run with Python 2.5, so it's only fair that you invest some time into making it as easy as possible for them.

The ssize_t patch is the single most disruptive patch in Python 2.5, so it deserves special attention.

I consider the fact that it's currently not possible to have a look at the changed APIs a documentation which is in the responsibility of the patch authors to provide (just like it always is). It is possible to look at the changed APIs, see http://docs.python.org/dev/api/sequence.html

That's neither a complete list (see the grep I sent), nor does it highlight the changes.

The API documentation is not the right place for the documentation of this change, IMHO, since it always refers to the current state in a specific Python release and not the changes applied to an API compared to an older release. The PEP is the perfect place for such a list, I guess.

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