Surely your project hasn't been approved by Google yet?
Otherwise, good to see such progress. BPL always had hard to find
resource leaks because of the lack of Py_Finalize support - I used to
Glowcode my bindings and I was never quite sure where leaks came
from. None were serious mind e.g. hanging onto a C++ object after it
was supposed to die.
Good stuff, but don't go too far without Google funding unless you're
happy doing this this summer anyway.
Niall
On 2 Apr 2009 at 4:07, Haoyu Bai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did some preliminary work on BPL py3k support in these days.
>
> With Troy's help we have a py3k SVN tree in sandbox now, which is
> branched from trunk. I also tried to compile BPL with Python 3, and by
> following the error report of the compiler, I did some patch - now we
> have 14 .cpp files out of 28 in total can be compiled. The patch is
> committed, you can see it here: [2]. Please point me out if the code
> has something don't conform to Boost coding policy. There's also
> something interesting, maybe a bug I caught, for example: (Search the
> changeset to see details)
>
> 39 // XXX(bhy) Potentional memory leak here since
> PyObject_GetAttrString returns a new reference
> 40 // const char *mod =
> PyString_AsString(PyObject_GetAttrString( self_,
> const_cast<char*>("__module__")));
> 41 PyObject *mod = PyObject_GetAttrString( self_,
> "__module__");
>
> Also I found some potential problem with Py_ssize_t, I will take this
> as a chance to fix them.
>
> The biggest problem I see still is the "Text Vs. Data Instead Of
> Unicode Vs. 8-bit" in py3k. As we discussed and the suggestion by
> Niall [3], we have a clear solution for this and I will work towarding
> this. The other changes in py3k such as PyObject_HEAD change, int type
> removal and unbound method removal also affected Boost.Python's code,
> but they don't require logical change of BPL code and easy to handle.
>
> Hopefully in the end of this summer, we will have a Boost.Python
> library with Python 3 support!
>
> Thanks again for many people's help!
>
> References:
> [1] https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/sandbox-branches
> [2] https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/52118
> [3] "Nabble - Python - c++-sig - Some thoughts on py3k support,"
> http://www.nabble.com/Some-thoughts-on-py3k-support-td22564813.html.
>
> -- Haoyu Bai
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