17 Mar
2021
17 Mar
'21
6:16 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 12:08 PM Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
Perhaps an even deeper and more provocative question is whether extension writers should be writing against *any* C API?
Decoupling extensions from the concrete C API could give the interpreter more flexibility for internal change.
Good point! I'm totally on board. :) I suppose that would be a Python 4.0 event and we could have no stable ABI for 4.0. (PEP 384 explicitly applies to Python 3.)
-eric