[Python-Dev] adding _Py prefix to names in 2.5.1?
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Jan 19 03:59:10 CET 2007
Neal Norwitz schrieb:
> http://python.org/sf/1637022 points out a problem caused by the lack
> of a _Py prefix on Ellipsis. Most (all?) of the new AST names are not
> prefixed. These are all meant to be internal names. Are there any
> issues with changing this? If we do so, it means that any module
> built with 2.5 that is using these names will fail to work in 2.5.1.
> No code outside the core *should* be using these names.
I'll look into this. I will create macros in the header file for them,
so that existing source code will continue to compile.
Regards,
Martin
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