I would love to see header files used for this -- while I know there is a long tradition of feature-flags that must be #defined by the user before #including a header in order to affect what the header exports (or not!), 30 years later I still find that approach pretty unintuitive.
But yes, it's going to be a complex transition. On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 12:30 PM Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > We discussed having leading underscores for this API tier, and it was > decided that a leading underscore was preferred. > > This did start a discussion, though, about whether we should control API > access/opt-in via `#include` by having `.h` files that convey what API the > user is opting into, or use `#define` to control what gets exposed via > `Python.h`. The general feeling was that the header file idea is ideal, but > it is a little extra work to transition to if you want to be compatible > with older versions of Python that wouldn't have the header files (Victor's > compatibility project could help here). The question for the team is > whether separate header files makes sense to others, or would people prefer > using `#define` and `Python.h` to control API access/opt-in? > _______________________________________________ > 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/Q5JU5YKGX2U2UAAILDH45S5UGN6GLVXT/ > 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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