[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] PyString -> PyBytes C API renaming (Stabilizing the C API of 2.6 and 3.0)

[Nick Coghlan]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> You are probably talking about the great renaming between 1.4 and 1.5.
> That was different, since it changes almost all C APIs in Python.
> And it used the standard practice... from rename2.h in Python 1.5:
> 
> /* This file contains a bunch of #defines that make it possible to use
>    "old style" names (e.g. object) with the new style Python source
>    distribution. */
> 
> #define True Py_True
> #define False Py_False
> #define None Py_None
> 
> ie. #define <oldname> <newname>

This is what I expected to see in stringobject.h, along with some code 
in stringobject.c to allow the linker to see the old names *as well as* 
the new names.

At the moment, all the code appears to be using the new names, but 
stringobject.h implicitly converts the new names back to the old names - 
so trying to use ctypes to retrieve the PyBytes_* functions from the 
Python DLL will fail.

Cheers,
Nick.

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