Feb. 3, 2022
4:49 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 11:50 PM Inada Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com> wrote:
It would be nice to provide something similar to _PY_IDENTIFIER, but designed (and documented) for 3rd party modules like this.
I suppose I'd like to know what the value of _Py_IDENTIFIER() is for 3rd party modules. They can already use PyUnicode_InternFromString() to get a "global" object and then store it in their module state. I would not expect _Py_IDENTIFIER() to provide much of an advantage over that. Perhaps I'm missing something? If there is a real benefit then we should definitely figure out a good public API for it (if the current private one isn't sufficient). I won't be authoring that PEP though. :) -eric