[Python-Dev] Add PyType_GetSlot (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Jan 28 09:27:53 CET 2014


I'd like to resolve a long-standing issue of the stable ABI in 3.4:

http://bugs.python.org/issue17162

The issue is that, since PyTypeObject is opaque, module authors cannot get at tp_free, which they may need to in order to implement tp_dealloc properly.

Rather than providing the proposed specific wrapper for tp_dealloc, I propose to add a generic PyType_GetSlot function. From a stability point of view, exposing slot values is uncritical - it's just that the layout of the type object is hidden.

Any objection to adding this before RC1?

Regards, Martin



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