Hi Petr,
(I already replied to some of your questions in my reply to Hugh.)
Le jeu. 4 juin 2020 à 12:09, Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com> a écrit :
I see that the current documentation of Py_TYPE, Py_REFCNT ans Py_SIZE suggest that using them as lvalues is perfectly valid. There is no mention that anything changed.
Oh, it seems like https://docs.python.org/dev/ is no longer updated for an unknown reason.
The documentation was updated.
If you look into the up to date Git repository, Py_TYPE() got a ".. versionchanged:: 3.10" markup, and the change is mentioned in "Porting to Python 3.10: C API Changes" section of What's New in Python 3.10. https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Doc/c-api/structures.rst
My project py3c was ment as compatibility headers for the 2→3 transition, but I ended up taking pull requests for newer features as well: https://github.com/encukou/py3c
That's an interesting approach, to automate "updating" C extensions to the newer C API.
There is also a similar project for Python code: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade (and many others more specific for Python 2 => Python 3 migration).
One option is to copy/paste compatibility macros like Py_SET_SIZE() for old Python versions directly in the C code of these extensions. It avoids depending on something external. It's a variant of having a vendored copy of an hypothetical PythonCompat.h header file.
By the way, it's also how Cython handles backward compatibility.
Victor
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