[Python-Dev] Documenting the private C API (was Re: Questions about signal handling.) (original) (raw)

Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 11:15:55 EDT 2018


On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:04 AM Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

Is anybody else concerned about the proliferation of undocumented private C API functions?

I am concerned about that too. In my opinion having all those semi-private undocumented C API just contributes to the noise and artificially inflates the grey area of C API that alternative implementations have to support.

We already have a mechanism for private header files: the "Include/internal/" directory. I think it should be mandatory to always put private C API-like functions/structs there.

Yury



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