[Python-Dev] API bloat

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> The functions may have been add to CPython 8 years ago, but they were
> added to the API when they appeared in the docs, between 3.1 and 3.1.3.
> 
> How is the API defined, if not by the documentation?

Just to stress and support Georg's explanation: the API is *not* defined
through the documentation, but instead primarily through the header
files. All functions declared as PyAPI_FUNC and not starting with _Py
are public API. There used to be a lot of undocumented API (up to 1.4,
there was no API documentation at all, only the extension module
tutorial); these days, more and more API gets documented.

HTH,
Martin