Oh, I didn't know this *existing* C API function: PyCode_NewEmpty(const char *filename, const char *funcname, int firstlineno) So Cython could be modified to use it, no? Victor On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 12:44 AM Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 4:12 PM Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 11:15 PM Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
FWIW I've applied for an exception from the two-release deprecation policy from the SC: https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues/75
On the PyPI top 5000 packages, 136 contain "PyCode" in the source. I didn't check how many are using Cython.
Most of them. :-)
I wrote a script that to do a similar search on the 4000 most popular packages, disregarding Cython-generated files (these have "/* Generated by Cython <version> */" in their first line). Now the list collapsed to this:
Cython-3.0a7.tar.gz: 11 hits in 3 files frozendict-2.0.6.tar.gz: 14 hits in 8 files gevent-21.8.0.tar.gz: 1 hits in 1 files JPype1-1.3.0.tar.gz: 1 hits in 1 files mypy-0.910.tar.gz: 2 hits in 1 files reportlab-3.6.1.tar.gz: 1 hits in 1 files setuptools-9.1.tar.gz: 1 hits in 1 files
Of these:
Cython: obviously :-) frozendict: calls PyCode_NewEmpty; seems to include modified CPython headers gevent: Uses Cython's __Pyx_PyCode_New in a generated .h file JPype: calls PyCode_NewEmpty mypy: PyCode_NewEmpty mentioned in a comment reportlab: calls PyCode_NewEmpty setuptools: in a file generated by Pyrex (Cython's predecessor)
There wasn't a single call to PyCode_NewWithPosOnlyArgs in any of these apart from Cython.
In addition, I just heard from the SC that they've approved the exception. So we will remove these two APIs from 3.11 without deprecation. I've filed https://bugs.python.org/issue45122 to get this done (looking for volunteers).
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