Oh, I didn't know this *existing* C API function:
PyCode_NewEmpty(const char *filename, const char *funcname, int firstlineno)
So Cython could be modified to use it, no?
Victor
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 12:44 AM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 4:12 PM Victor Stinner <vstin...@python.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 11:15 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
>> > FWIW I've applied for an exception from the two-release deprecation policy
>> > from the SC:
>> > https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues/75
>>
>> On the PyPI top 5000 packages, 136 contain "PyCode" in the source. I
>> didn't check how many are using Cython.
>
>
> Most of them. :-)
>
> I wrote a script that to do a similar search on the 4000 most popular
> packages, disregarding Cython-generated files (these have "/* Generated by
> Cython <version> */" in their first line). Now the list collapsed to this:
>
> Cython-3.0a7.tar.gz: 11 hits in 3 files
> frozendict-2.0.6.tar.gz: 14 hits in 8 files
> gevent-21.8.0.tar.gz: 1 hits in 1 files
> JPype1-1.3.0.tar.gz: 1 hits in 1 files
> mypy-0.910.tar.gz: 2 hits in 1 files
> reportlab-3.6.1.tar.gz: 1 hits in 1 files
> setuptools-9.1.tar.gz: 1 hits in 1 files
>
> Of these:
>
> Cython: obviously :-)
> frozendict: calls PyCode_NewEmpty; seems to include modified CPython headers
> gevent: Uses Cython's __Pyx_PyCode_New in a generated .h file
> JPype: calls PyCode_NewEmpty
> mypy: PyCode_NewEmpty mentioned in a comment
> reportlab: calls PyCode_NewEmpty
> setuptools: in a file generated by Pyrex (Cython's predecessor)
>
> There wasn't a single call to PyCode_NewWithPosOnlyArgs in any of these apart
> from Cython.
>
> In addition, I just heard from the SC that they've approved the exception. So
> we will remove these two APIs from 3.11 without deprecation. I've filed
> https://bugs.python.org/issue45122 to get this done (looking for volunteers).
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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