On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
Please consider this: even without relying on PEP 384, using FILE* is /already/ dangerous; because you might compile an extension with a different compiler version than Python was compiled with. So, if we were following you, we should rip out PyObject_Print() of the whole C API, not only the limited subset which is defined by PEP 384.
(now I have nothing against completely ripping out PyObject_Print() if we find out that it's not really useful...)
I think it would be better if everything dealing with FILE* was a macro rather than a function, yes. The definition of the limited API is a chance to fix that without incurring the cost in backwards incompatibility that would otherwise arise. Since we have that opportunity, why not take it? Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia