[Python-Dev] Name space pollution (fwd)

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I forward this along for the folks here who don't see c.l.py but can address
this issue.

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From: gson@nominum.com (Andreas Gustafsson)
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I'm trying to get Python to coexist with the State Threads library
(http://state-threads.sourceforge.net/), but I'm having problems due
to the fact that Python defines the word "destructor" as a typedef.
Specifically, after including Python.h, the following line in the
State Threads header file st.h does not compile:

  extern int st_key_create(int *keyp, void (*destructor)(void *));

It seems to me that Python should not be polluting the namespace this
way - shouldn't the Python typedef be something like PyDestructor
instead of just "destructor"?

Python also pollutes a number of other common symbols in a similar way,
for example, "cmpfunc", "hashfunc", and "initproc".

Is there any chance this will be fixed?
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Andreas Gustafsson, gson@nominum.com

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