On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:00 AM Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum schrieb am 07.09.21 um 00:44: > > 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. > > Erm, hang on – when I wrote that I'm fine with *changing* them, I wasn't > thinking of actually *removing* them. At least not both. PyCode_NewEmpty() > isn't a good replacement since it takes low level arguments … char* > instead > of Python strings. It's good for the simple use case that it was written > for (and Cython already uses it for that), but not so great for anything > beyond that. > Is the issue that you want to specify a few additional simple arguments, or that you already have unicode objects and you don't want to have them converted back to char * (which will then be converted to new unicode objects by PyCode_NewEmpty)? > What I could try is to create only a single dummy code object and then > always call .replace() on it to create new ones. But that seems hackish > and > requires managing yet another bit of global state across static and > generated code parts. > I can't argue with the need for an extra bit of global state, but to me, calling .replace() is not hackish, it's the best way to create new code objects -- it works for older Python versions and will keep working in the future. > I could also switch to _PyCode_New(), though it's not exactly what I would > call an attractive option, both for usability reasons and its future API > stability. (Cython also still generates C89 code, i.e. no partial struct > initialisations.) > That's too bad. With the new struct initializations it's actually more usable and more stable going forward. > Any suggestions? > > Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/B6WFHGVAASF4MFUMPIHBZEUCPXVANU7D/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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