[Python-Dev] pymalloc API - is 1.5.2 compatibility a possible explanation?
Skip Montanaro
skip@pobox.com
Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:27:08 -0600
Michael> I thought we'd already worked this much out...
Skip> We might have, but clearly there are a lot of extension module
Skip> writers who haven't. ;-)
Fredrik> yeah, blame it on the extension writers. we should have known
Fredrik> that we couldn't trust the documentation and the code samples
Fredrik> shipped with Python...
I wasn't blaming anything on the extension writers. As an example,
mysql-python is actively maintained and enhanced, but still uses the 1.5.2
API. I don't blame Andy for not having discovered and reacted to this API
change. I was merely commenting that there are a lot of extensions that for
whatever reason don't play by the current rules. That the rules changed in
subtle ways since 1.5.2 is not the extension writers' fault.
Skip