[Python-Dev] Consolidate stateful runtime globals (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Sep 6 06:14:59 EDT 2017


Hello,

I'm a bit concerned about https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/76d5abc8684bac4f2fc7cccfe2cd940923357351

My main gripe is that makes writing C code more tedious. Simple C global variables such as "_once_registry" are now spelled "_PyRuntime.warnings.once_registry". The most egregious example seems to be "_PyRuntime.ceval.gil.locked" (used to be simply "gil_locked").

Granted, C is more verbose than Python, but it doesn't have to become that verbose. I don't know about you, but when code becomes annoying to type, I tend to try and take shortcuts.

Regards

Antoine.



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