Hi,
The size of the C API, as measured by `git grep PyAPI_FUNC | wc -l` has
been steadily increasing over the last few releases.
3.5 1237
3.6 1304
3.7 1408
3.8 1478
3.9 1518
For reference the 2.7 branch has "only" 973 functions
I've heard many criticisms of Python 2 over the years, but that it
needed a bigger C API wasn't one of them ;)
Why are these functions being added? Wasn't 1000 C functions enough?
Every one of these functions represents a maintenance burden.
Removing them is painful and takes a lot of effort, but adding them is
done casually, without a PEP or, in many cases, even a review.
We need to address what to do about the C API in the long term, but for
now can we just stop making it larger? Please.
Also, can we remove all the new API functions added in 3.9 before the
release and it is too late?
Cheers,
Mark.
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