[Python-Dev] Experiment an opt-in new C API for Python? (leave current API unchanged)

Neil Schemenauer nas-python at arctrix.com
Mon Nov 19 13:13:30 EST 2018


On 2018-11-19, Victor Stinner wrote:
> Moreover, I failed to find anyone who can explain me how the C API
> is used in the wild, which functions are important or not, what is
> the C API, etc.

One idea is to download a large sample of extension modules from
PyPI and then analyze them with some automated tool (maybe
libclang).  I guess it is possible there is a large non-public set
of extensions that we would miss.

Regards,

  Neil


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