[Python-Dev] .clinic.c vs .c.clinic

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Jan 20, 2014, at 12:05 AM, Larry Hastings wrote:
>
> >Contestant 5: "Put in __clinic__ directory, add .h"
> >
> >    foo.c -> __clinic__/foo.c.h
> >    foo.h -> __clinic__/foo.h.h
>
> This is cached output right?


Yes, it's generated entirely based on data provided in original source file.


>  IOW, it can be regenerated if it's missing.  If
> so, this seems like a nice parallel to __pycache__.  It's mostly hidden
> until
> you want to go looking for it.
>

More-or-less. The key difference is you will most likely look at the
generated file *once* to copy-and-paste the relevant macros to paste into
your source file for use (e.g. the relevant MethodDef stuff). But it's a
one-time thing that never has to be done again as long as you don't rename
a function or method.
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