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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jan 20 21:05:55 CET 2014

On 01/20/2014 11:46 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Barry Warsaw 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.

Won't AC put those macros in the source file for you?

-- Ethan

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