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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sat Apr 10 17:58:41 CEST 2010

On Apr 09, 2010, at 05:41 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

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

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 PyImportExecCodeModuleEx() is far from private! (I don't know where Barry got that idea.)

Note that it's the non-Ex version that's documented here. AFAICT, PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx() is not documented. I'm happy to fix that in my branch as well.

While Google Code Search finds mostly references to PyImportExecCodeModuleEx 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/yehia0.5.4.orig.tar.gz|PZ0Xf7QzC0/yehia-0.5.4.orig/plugins/python/python-loader.cc&q=PyImportExecCodeModuleEx

Sure, let's not break existing API even if it's undocumented. The one nice thing about ExEx() is that it's clearly related to the two previous API functions its based on. But if you don't like it then how about something like PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames()?

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