> On 27 Dec 2016, at 20:04, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:
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> From the documentation:
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> https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/stable.html
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>    In the C API documentation, API elements that are not part of the limited API are marked as "Not part of the limited API."
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> But they don't.
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> I prepared a sample patch that adds the notes to Unicode Objects and Codecs C API (http://bugs.python.org/issue29086). I'm going to add them to all C API.
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> What are your though about formatting the note? Should it be before the description, after the description, but before the "deprecated" directive (as in the patch), or after the first paragraph of the description? Should it be on the separate line or be appended at the end of the previous paragraph, or starts the first paragraph (if before the description)? May be introduce a special directive for it?

A directive would make it easier to ensure that the text about the stable API is consistent.  I’d also consider adding that directive to all API’s that *are* part of the stable API instead of the other way around (that would also require changes to …/stable.html). That would have two advantages: firstly it makes it easier to document from which version an API is part of the stable ABI, and secondly forgetting the annotation would imply that an API is not part of the stable ABI instead of accidentally claiming to increase the stable ABI.