[Python-Dev] PEP 3147, cached, and PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx() (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Apr 10 02:41:48 CEST 2010

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

On 9 April 2010 23:00, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Apr 09, 2010, at 02:52 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

It may be undocumented but it doesn't start with and it exists to preserve backwards compatibility. So I recommend adding PyImportExecCodeModuleExEx(). Cool, thanks.  Now I can't wait for PyImportExecCodeModuleExExEx() :) Would it be better to name this one PyImportExecCodeModuleExEx (with an underscore) so that we don't need to create an ExExEx version in future? (Sorry, Barry :-))

I don't care about what name you pick, and my ExEx proposal was meant to include half a wink, but http://docs.python.org/c-api/import.html makes it clear that PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx() is far from private! (I don't know where Barry got that idea.) While Google Code Search finds mostly references to PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx in the Python source code and various copies of it, it also shows some real uses, e.g. http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#bkFK9YpaWlI/ubuntu/pool/universe/y/yehia/yehia_0.5.4.orig.tar.gz|PZ0_Xf7QzC0/yehia-0.5.4.orig/plugins/python/python-loader.cc&q=PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx

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