[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] PyString -> PyBytes C API renaming (Stabilizing the C API of 2.6 and 3.0) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed May 28 15:43:13 CEST 2008

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

You are probably talking about the great renaming between 1.4 and 1.5. That was different, since it changes almost all C APIs in Python. And it used the standard practice... from rename2.h in Python 1.5:

/* This file contains a bunch of #defines that make it possible to use "old style" names (e.g. object) with the new style Python source distribution. */ #define True PyTrue #define False PyFalse #define None PyNone ie. #define

This is what I expected to see in stringobject.h, along with some code in stringobject.c to allow the linker to see the old names as well as the new names.

At the moment, all the code appears to be using the new names, but stringobject.h implicitly converts the new names back to the old names - so trying to use ctypes to retrieve the PyBytes_* functions from the Python DLL will fail.

Cheers, Nick.

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