[Python-Dev] Support for marking limited API elements in C API docs (original) (raw)

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 21:57:29 CEST 2013

12.10.13 22:19, Georg Brandl написав(ла):

Am 12.10.2013 20:20, schrieb Serhiy Storchaka:

12.10.13 21:04, Georg Brandl написав(ла):

in light of the recent thread about PEPs not forming part of the docs, I've just pushed a change that allows to document C API elements not part of the limited API as such. It is done like this:

... c:function:: int PyTupleResize(PyObject **p, Pyssizet newsize) :notlimited: I have not yet begun adding these to the documents; if someone wants to help with this I am glad for volunteers. Why this is needed? The limited API is unstable and only developers of CPython can use it (but they can look in headers). Well, I may be reading PEP 384 wrongly, but the point is exactly to have a stable API for non-core developers to rely upon, so that they can build extensions that don't need to be recompiled for every version of Python.

Sorry, I meant notlimited API. It can vary from version to version and can disappear. For example _PyUnicodeWriter was changed many times (and I suppose it will be changed many times).

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