[Python-Dev] Proposed: drop unnecessary "context" pointer from PyGetSetDef

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

> So: you don't need it, it clutters up our code (particularly typeobject.c),
> and it adds overhead.  The only good reason to keep it is backwards
> compatibility, which I admit is a fine reason.
>

If you make the change, will 3rd party code that relies on it fail in
unexpected ways, or will they just get a compile error?

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Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.
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