[Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:57 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
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>> Note that we can have both a macro and a function
>> version.  This is fairly standard practice in Python C-API.
>
> Sure, but what for ?
>

Mostly just for consistency with the other macros:

http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/c-api/unicode.html#unicode-character-properties

Wait, these actually map to C functions as well.  So this is just a
naming issue.