[Python-Dev] are CObjects inherently unsafe?

[Martin v. Löwis]

Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:

> It seems to me that it would be more sensible to have a dict mapping
> names (maybe just module names...) to cobjects in the interpreter
> state.  I guess there might be a way of getting ahold of the dict with
> the gc module (though I can't think of one off hand).  This wouldn't
> be a difficult change, and if the CObjects are left in the module
> dicts, it shouldn't even do that much damage to binary compatibility.
> 
> Thoughts?

Good idea. Alternatively, we could make "APIs" a feature of modules:
PyModule_GetAPI, PyModule_SetAPI. We would then define

typedef struct {
	PyObject_HEAD
	PyObject *md_dict;
        PyObject *md_api;
} PyModuleObject;

We could restrict md_api to CObjects, which, means we would not need
to change module_traverse.

Regards,
Martin