On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
As I clean up Python/import.c and move much of its functionality into Lib/imp.py, I am about to run into some stuff that was not kept private to the file. Specifically, I have PyImport_GetMagicTag() and NullImporter_Type which I would like to chop out and move to Lib/imp.py.
From my reading of PEP 384 that means I would need to at least deprecate PyImport_getMagicTag(), correct (assuming I follow through with this; I might not bother)? What about NullImporter_Type (it lacks a Py prefix so I am not sure if this is considered public or not)?
Yeah, PyImporter_GetMagicTag() looks like a public API, parallel with PyImporter_GetMagicNumber(). Maybe it was accidentally not documented? I'm not sure when it was introduced. Should we even deprecate it? I'd say do the same thing you're doing for GetMagicNumber(). NullImporter_Type looks like it was accidentally not made static, so don't fret about that. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)