STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org> added the comment:
Eric Snow proposes that C extensions which want to be compatible with subinterpreters must use an hypothetical variant of the C API which doesn't inherit flaws of the current C API. For example, static types like "&PyLong_Type" would be excluded. To be clear, the limited C API does expose (indirectly) "&PyLong_Type". We are talking about a new variant of the C API. The main interpreter would continue to use its static type "&PyLong_Type", whereas each subinterpreter would get its own "int" type allocated on the heap (heap type). Someone has to write a PoC to ensure that this idea works in practice. In bpo-40601, I proposed that all interpreters including the main interpreter only use heap types: remove "&PyLong_Type" from the C API which is a backward incompatible C API change. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43503> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
