[Python-Dev] Add Py_SETREF and Py_XSETREF to the stable C API (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Fri Nov 10 06:25:55 EST 2017

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:09:12PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

I'm with Antoine on this - we should be pushing folks writing extension modules towards code generators like Cython, cffi, SWIG, and SIP, support libraries like Boost::Python, or safer languages like Rust (which can then be wrapped with cffi), rather than encouraging more bespoke C/C++ extensions modules with handcrafted refcount management. There's a reason the only parts of https://packaging.python.org/guides/packaging-binary-extensions/ that have actually been filled in are the ones explaining how to use a tool to write the extension module for you :)

They will be slower and in my experience not easier to maintain -- quite the opposite.

Stefan Krah

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