[Python-Dev] Initialization hook for extenders

[Patrick J. Miller]

Martin,

Sorry you disagree.  I think that the issue is still important and
other pieces of the API are already in this direction.

For instance, there is no need to have PyImport_AppendInittab
because you can hack config.c (which you can get from
$prefix/lib/pythonx.x/config/config.c)
and in fact many people did exactly that but it made for a messy
extension until the API call made it clean and direct.

You don't need Py_AtExit() because you can call through to
atexit.register() to put the function in.

The list goes on...

I still think that Py_AtInit() is clean, symmetric with Py_AtExit(),
and solves a big problem for extenders who wish to address
localization from within C (as opposed to sitecustomize.py).

This is a 10 line patch with 0 runtime impact
that requires no maintanence to move forward with new versions.
If it were more than that, I could better understand your objections.

Hope that I can get you to at least vote 0 instead of -1.

Cheers,

Pat



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