[Python-Dev] PyCObject_AsVoidPtr removed from python 3.2 - is this documented?

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Wed Mar 9 07:50:02 CET 2011


On 08.03.2011 23:47, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>>> I think everything here is as it should be. People who really cared
>>> about forwards compatibility could have known, but factually, most
>>> people don't care enough. Those then learn for the first time that
>>> some feature was deprecated after it is actually removed. They then
>>> ask why it is removed, and somebody will tell them.
>>
>> I was not aware I could turn on deprecation warning for use of the C API.
>> How can I do that?
> 
> Not sure that you can. When I said "could have known", I meant "by 
> reading the documentation".

Well, it looks like the CObject functions actually emitted
PendingDeprecationWarnings when used:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/16f8f359db9c/Objects/cobject.c#l12

Georg



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