[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #19512: Add a new _PyDict_DelItemId() function, similar to (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 12:19:19 CET 2013

2013/11/8 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

In Python 3.3, PyDictGetItemIdWithError(), PyDictGetItemId() and PyDictSetItemId() are part of the stable ABI if I read correctly dictobject.h. PyObjectGetAttrId() is also part of the stable ABI. Was it a mistake, or did I misunderstand how stable functions are declared? Likely a mistake - the stable ABI is hard to review properly (since it can depend on non local preprocessor checks, so a mistake may not be obvious in a diff), we don't currently have a systematic approach to handling changes and there's no automated test to catch inadvertent additions or (worse) removals :(

Would it be possible to remove them from the stable ABI in Python 3.4? They are marked as private using the "_Py" prefix...

This may be a good thing for us to look at more generally when things settle down a bit after the beta 1 feature freeze.

I created the following issue to not forget it: http://bugs.python.org/issue19526

Victor

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