[Python-Dev] PEP 576 (original) (raw)

Mark Shannon mark at hotpy.org
Tue Jun 26 15:43:59 EDT 2018

Hi all,

Just a reminder that PEP 576 still exists as a lightweight alternative to PEP 575/580. It achieves the same goals as PEP 580 but is much smaller.

Unless there is a big rush, I would like to do some experiments as to whether the new calling convention should be

typedef (*callptr)(PyObject *func, PyObject *const *stack, Py_ssize_t nargs, PyObject *kwnames);

or whether the increased generality of:

typedef (*callptr)(PyObject *func, PyObject *const *stack, Py_ssize_t nargs, PyObject *kwnames, PyTupleObject *starargs, PyObject *kwdict);

is a worthwhile enhancement.

Cheers, Mark.