On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 1:33 PM Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> wrote:
Hi Guido,
It seems like you are talking about the Python API.
Primarily, yes. In the C API, there is the internal C API which fits with your
description. To access it, you have to declare the Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE macro. It's not usable directly on purpose. It's an user agreement: I know what I am doing, and I know that this API is not supported nor stable.
Hm, but aren't for example all the fields of code objects (co_name, co_argcount, etc.) in the "non-internal" API? Those (and the functions that manipulate code objects) are a prime example of what I'd consider "unstable". On https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/code.html it already says about the fields "The fields of this type are subject to change at any time." But I think everything else on that page should be considered unstable as well. (And why do we even have PyCode_GetNumFree()?)
I don't know if there would be a way to advertise that a Python API is unstable. Some projects use an underscore prefix in their module names to mark them as "private". For example, sub-modules of a package are called "_something.py" and they exposed in package/__init__.py (or another public module).
I was primarily thinking of the docs. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-c...>