New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: After commenting [1] on the fact that the current datetime module C API [2] is problematic due to its reliance on C level global variables, I discovered that this is actually the outcome of our recommended approach to using capsules to export a C API as function pointers: https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html#providing-a-c-api-for-an-extension-module
So we first need to fix the documentation to propose a reloading friendly way of using capsules in other extension modules, and then we can then propose updating the public datetime C API accordingly (probably by defining new macros that accept the capsule reference as their first argument). [1] https://bugs.python.org/issue10381#msg309214 [2] https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/datetime.html [3] https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html#providing-a-c-api-for-an-extension-module ---------- messages: 309266 nosy: brett.cannon, eric.snow, ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Capsule API usage docs are incompatible with module reloading (etc) type: behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32459> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
