[Python-Dev] .clinic.c vs .c.clinic (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Jan 20 20:46:25 CET 2014

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Jan 20, 2014, at 12:05 AM, Larry Hastings wrote:

>Contestant 5: "Put in clinic directory, add .h" > > foo.c -> clinic/foo.c.h > foo.h -> clinic/foo.h.h This is cached output right?

Yes, it's generated entirely based on data provided in original source file.

IOW, it can be regenerated if it's missing. If so, this seems like a nice parallel to pycache. It's mostly hidden until you want to go looking for it.

More-or-less. The key difference is you will most likely look at the generated file once to copy-and-paste the relevant macros to paste into your source file for use (e.g. the relevant MethodDef stuff). But it's a one-time thing that never has to be done again as long as you don't rename a function or method. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140120/8adeedaf/attachment.html>

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