[Python-Dev] Add Py_SETREF and Py_XSETREF to the stable C API

[Stefan Krah]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:09:12PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I'm with Antoine on this - we should be pushing folks writing
> extension modules towards code generators like Cython, cffi, SWIG, and
> SIP, support libraries like Boost::Python, or safer languages like
> Rust (which can then be wrapped with cffi), rather than encouraging
> more bespoke C/C++ extensions modules with handcrafted refcount
> management. There's a reason the only parts of
> https://packaging.python.org/guides/packaging-binary-extensions/ that
> have actually been filled in are the ones explaining how to use a tool
> to write the extension module for you :)

They will be slower and in my experience not easier to maintain -- quite
the opposite.



Stefan Krah