[Python-Dev] PEP 384 accepted (original) (raw)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Sat Dec 4 09:35:11 CET 2010

"Martin v. Löwis", 02.12.2010 21:24:

Since discussion has trailed off without any blocking objections, I'm accepting PEP 384. Martin, you may mark the PEP accepted and proceed with merging the implementation for the beta on Saturday. Thanks! will do (I'll also take into consideration the proposed changes).

Note that the PEP states under "Signature Changes":

""" A number of functions currently expect a specific struct, even though callers typically have PyObject* available. These have been changed to expect PyObject* as the parameter; this will cause warnings in applications that currently explicitly cast to the parameter type. """

That's not true for C++ compilation where I now get an error - 3 failing tests in Cython's test suite tonight due to the new PyEval_EvalCode() signature.

I'm not really complaining (the API fixes are long overdue), just leaving a comment that what a compiler considers a warning or error pretty much depends on compiler, platform and configuration. So the above statement can be considered euphemistic.

Stefan

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