[Python-Dev] Are undocumented functions part of the stable ABI? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Apr 8 04:43:23 EDT 2018

On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 13:17:36 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 6 April 2018 at 14:45, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > As you may guess from the silence, it may be hard to get a definitive answer > to this question -- PEP 384's author has stopped actively participating in > the Python community and I'm not sure if any core developers currently > consider themselves to be the "guardians of the ABI".

It's only been a few days, and there are definitely some of us that genuinely want the stable ABI to meet its guarantees (e.g. me, Steve Dower, Eric Snow, Victor Stinner). It just isn't likely to come fully into its own until more library developers are able to drop support for Python 2.7.

Note there are issues with PyType_FromSpec() which make the stable ABI rather delicate to use: https://bugs.python.org/issue15727 https://bugs.python.org/issue16690

Regards

Antoine.

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