[Python-Dev] Documenting the ssize_t Python C API changes
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Mar 21 18:45:44 CET 2006
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote in message
news:442032D3.8020609 at egenix.com...
>Perhaps we should have three lists:
>1. Py_ssize_t output parameters (these need changes)
>2. Py_ssize_t return values (these need overflow checks)
>3. Py_ssize_t input parameters (these can be used to enhance
the extension)
If I were an extension writer in a position to need these, I am sure I
would prefer the three lists separated. (Where housed would otherwise be
pretty irrelevant.) I know I would strongly prefer to have them be
separate plain ascii text files linked to as appendixes rather than
incorporated into the PEP itself.
I might also like a separate doc (or wiki entry/ies) on updating extension
to use Py_ssize_t, with more than one persons experiences, if indeed it it
not trivial and straightforward.
Terry Jan Reedy
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