Guido van Rossum wrote:
I'd suggest to have a PEP which documents all C API changes or deprecations together with a short decsription of how to update old code.
It shouldn't be a PEP (that's a *proposal*). It should be part of the C API docs, possibly an appendix.
I was thinking of an informational PEP -- mostly because PEPs are easily accessible and also simple to write (LaTeX is not everybody's friend ;-).
Yeah, that's fine. Let whoever writes it decide on the format. :-)
Good idea .. as long as someone does :-)
True, but there are other instances where this was a problem in the past, e.g.
#if PY_VERSION_HEX < 0x01060000
#if !defined(PyObject_DEL) # define PyObject_DEL(x) free(x) # define PyObject_Del(x) free(x) #endif
#endif
Why the PY_VERSION_HEX guard? Isn't the !defined() guard enough?
Well, yes... this is more to document when the change happened.