[Python-Dev] Restricted API versioning (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Sun Jun 24 01:40:13 CEST 2012

Am 24.06.2012 01:11, schrieb Larry Hastings:

On 06/23/2012 03:08 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

On 23.06.2012 23:41, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Perhaps something more user-friendly than the hexversion? Please propose something. I think the hexversion is user-friendly, +1 to the idea, and specifically to using hexversion here.

+1 for the general idea and for using Py_LIMITED_API. I still like my idea of a simple macro based on Include/patchlevel.h, for example:

#define Py_API_VERSION(major, minor, micro)
(((major) << 24) | ((minor) << 16) | ((micro) << 8))

#if Py_LIMITED_API+0 >= Py_API_VERSION(3, 3, 0) #endif

(Though what will we do after Python 255.0?)

Luckily it's gonna take another 1500 years, or so. Our progenies could rename Python to Circus ...

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