[Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

[Michael Foord]

  On 01/09/2010 13:54, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> [snip...]
> Please consider this: even without relying on PEP 384, using FILE*
> is /already/ dangerous; because you might compile an extension with a
> different compiler version than Python was compiled with. So, if we were
> following you, we should rip out PyObject_Print() of the whole C API,
> not only the limited subset which is defined by PEP 384.

Definitely. On Windows it is relatively common to configure distutils to 
compile extensions with Mingw, which is likely to have problems with 
FILE* from the Microsoft C runtime [1].

Michael

[1] I say *likely* because I have vague memories of Mingw being able to 
compile against msvcrt, but I'm not sure about this. This is actually 
less of an issue at the moment as we are now using a Microsoft compiler 
for which a free version is available. This wasn't the case for a while 
(and still isn't for those using Python 2.5 and earlier).

> (now I have nothing against completely ripping out PyObject_Print() if
> we find out that it's not really useful...)
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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