[Python-Dev] Issue #23903 - stable API is incomplete (original) (raw)

Steve Dower steve.dower at python.org
Wed Dec 21 12:14:47 EST 2016

There's a difference between "private", "stable for 3.x" and "stable for all 3" though. It's the third category that's getting too many functions added without due consideration.

Top-posted from my Windows Phone

-----Original Message----- From: "Victor Stinner" <victor.stinner at gmail.com> Sent: ‎12/‎21/‎2016 8:40 To: "Nathaniel Smith" <njs at pobox.com> Cc: "Steve Dower" <steve.dower at python.org>; "Serhiy Storchaka" <storchaka at gmail.com>; "Python Dev" <python-dev at python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Issue #23903 - stable API is incomplete

2016-12-21 17:21 GMT+01:00 Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com>:

It sounds like the opt-out approach isn't working very well, and maybe an opt-in approach should be considered instead? I recognize that the way C headers work makes this difficult, but it seems like something needs to change.

I proposed something different: "Python 3.7: remove all private C functions from the Python C API?" https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-September/146386.html

Create subdirectories in Include/ to define private functions in different files.

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