[Python-Dev] Python 3.7: remove all private C functions from the Python C API? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Sep 12 08:03:30 EDT 2016

On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 04:37:58 -0400 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

For Python 3.7, I propose that we move all these private functions in separated header files, maybe Include/private/ or Include/core/, and not export them as part of the "regular API".

-1 from me. There are reasons to rely on private stuff when necessary.

As long as private APIs are underscore-prefixed, people know what they are risking by using them.

Regards

Antoine.

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