Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:
Larry Hastings wrote:
My understanding is that there a) 2.x extension modules are not binary compatible with 3.x, and b) there are essentially no 3.x extension modules in the field. Is that accurate? If we don't have an installed base (yet) to worry about, now's the time to make this change.
cx_Oracle at least uses this closure field, and has already been ported to 3.x: http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=Connection_SetOCIAttr+trunk
And they're using it as a pointer, too! Nice to see it not abused for once. If it helps, I volunteer to port cx_Oracle to the new PyGetSetDef if my patch is accepted. The resulting code would be backwards-compatible with Python 3.0, so it could be incorporated immediately. Given the lack of interest in the proposal so far, this is an easy vow to make! /larry/