[Python-Dev] PEP 509 (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 18:24:32 EST 2016

2016-01-12 23:24 GMT+01:00 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us>:

Even if not exposed at the Python layer, it's still exposed when working at the C layer. Is version any less confusing there? (I only work in C when working on Python, and only occasionally, so my question is real.)

Fields of the PyDictObject must be prefixed with "ma_". If you read the prior art of the PEP, you will see that Antoine Pitrou also proposed the "ma_version" name. The existing version on types used the "version_tag" name. Maybe I should pick this one.

Dunder names like version is not used in the C language.

Do you expect "version" to be somehow "protected" or "private"? The field is definitely public in the Python C API, and I don't think that it's a problem. It's not really a choice, there is no way to hide a field of a C structure. If you start to do random things on the C API, it's your responsability :-)

Victor

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