[Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

[Nick Coghlan]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> (now I have nothing against completely ripping out PyObject_Print() if
> we find out that it's not really useful...)

I think it would be better if everything dealing with FILE* was a
macro rather than a function, yes. The definition of the limited API
is a chance to fix that without incurring the cost in backwards
incompatibility that would otherwise arise. Since we have that
opportunity, why not take it?

Cheers,
Nick.

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