[Python-Dev] limited_api and datetime

[Christian Tismer]

Hi Nick,

On 23.08.17 07:41, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 23 August 2017 at 00:09, stackless <tismer at stackless.com> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I am trying to support the limited Api (PEP 384) for PySide. Fortunately,
>> everything worked out of the box, just the datetime module gives me
>> a problem. Inspection showed that datetime is completely removed
>> when the limitation is set.
>>
>> Can somebody enlighten me why that needs to be so?
> 
> The main problem is that "datetime.h" defines several C structs that
> we wouldn't want to add to the stable ABI, and nobody has previously
> worked through details of the interface to see which parts of it could
> still be used even if those structs were made opaque, and the macros
> relying on them were switched to being functions instead.
> 
> There are almost certainly pieces of it that *could* be usefully
> exposed, though.
> 
>> And how should I use datetime, instead: Fish the functions out of
>> the dynamically imported datetime module?
> 
> Yep, going via the Python level API rather than directly to the C API
> is the default answer, as that inherently hides any struct layout
> details behind PyObject*.

Thank you very much for the clarification.
I think we can live with the Python interface for now.
Now I'm sure that I'm going the way to go.

Cheers -- Chris

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