[Python-Dev] PEP 509

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/12/2016 03:24 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:
 > 2016-01-12 23:24 GMT+01:00 Ethan Furman wrote:

 >> Even if not exposed at the Python layer, it's still exposed when
 >> working at the C layer.  Is __version__ any less confusing there?
 >> (I only work in C when working on Python, and only occasionally, so
 >> my question is real.)
 >
 > Fields of the PyDictObject must be prefixed with "ma_". If you read
 > the prior art of the PEP, you will see that Antoine Pitrou also
 > proposed the "ma_version" name. The existing version on types used the
 > "version_tag" name. Maybe I should pick this one.
 >
 > Dunder names like __version__ is not used in the C language.
 >
 > Do you expect "__version__" to be somehow "protected" or "private"?

Nope, I just don't want to be misdirected when I see the name. :)  I 
think ma_version (or ma_seqnum) will be fine.

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~Ethan~