[Python-3000] Last minute C API fixes

[Guido van Rossum]

Sounds like a plan. Make sure it is prominently mentioned in Misc/NEWS.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:03 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> On 2008-08-07 18:40, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 7, 2008, at 5:09 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Is it too late for that ?
>>>>>
>>>>> That kind of depends on how far other 3rd party projects are in
>>>>> porting their extensions to Py3k, and how much they've bought into
>>>>> these APIs. I recall that mechanically translating these APIs to
>>>>> something else can easily introduce memory leaks.
>>>>
>>>> True, but isn't it better to go through that pain for a few extensions
>>>> now and then have a proper C API to use in 3.1 ? Otherwise, we end
>>>> up having to support those APIs for the whole lifetime
>>>> of the 3.x branch.
>>>>
>>>> Note that those two APIs are not documented, so their use is not
>>>> yet officially allowed.
>>>
>>> I'd prefer not introducing such instability this late in the beta
>>> processes,
>>> but I agree that fixing it now will be better in the long term.
>>
>> I see this as a sufficient endorsement. Marc-Andre, can you do this?
>
> Yes. I'll just apply a renaming of two APIs (and all their uses
> in the interpreter code) to a _Py internal name.
>
> We can then hash out a better interface to the internal UTF-8
> representation for 3.1.
>
> Extension that use the current unofficial APIs could then also
> apply that renaming if the developers don't have time to update
> the code and then use the new APIs when 3.1 ships.
>
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