[Python-Dev] C-API status of Python 3?

[Gregory P. Smith]

On 3/2/08, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
>
> Alex Martelli wrote:
> > Yep, but please do keep the PyUnicode for str and PyString for bytes
> > (as macros/synonnyms of PyStr and PyBytes if you want!-) to help the
> > task of porting existing extensions... the bytearray functions should
> > no doubt be PyBytearray, though.
>
>
> Yeah, we've already planed to keep PyUnicode as prefix for str type
> functions. It makes perfectly sense, not only from the historical point
> of view.
>
> But for PyString I planed to rename the prefix to PyBytes. In my opinion
> we are going to regret it, when we keep too many legacy names from 2.x.
> In order to make the migration process easier I can add a header file
> that provides PyString_* functions as aliases for PyBytes_*


+1 on only doing this via a header that must be explicitly included by
modules wanting the compatibility names.
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