On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 13:17:36 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6 April 2018 at 14:45, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > As you may guess from the silence, it may be hard to get a definitive answer > > to this question -- PEP 384's author has stopped actively participating in > > the Python community and I'm not sure if any core developers currently > > consider themselves to be the "guardians of the ABI". > > It's only been a few days, and there are definitely some of us that > genuinely want the stable ABI to meet its guarantees (e.g. me, Steve > Dower, Eric Snow, Victor Stinner). It just isn't likely to come fully > into its own until more library developers are able to drop support > for Python 2.7.
Note there are issues with PyType_FromSpec() which make the stable ABI rather delicate to use: https://bugs.python.org/issue15727 https://bugs.python.org/issue16690 Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
