Neal Norwitz wrote: >> These modules can be converted. > > We can convert the one's in Python, but not the third party ones. > It's also very difficult to search for something that's not there. > You need to review every PyMethodDef entry to verify it has a METH_* > flag. These implicit METH_OLDARGS may well exist in Python, > especially given who did the patch to add them in the first place. :-) > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-March/022009.html > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/patches/2002-July/009023.html
I'll gradually try to convert them. >> > I would like to get rid of the flag, but I'm not sure we can do it >> > safely until 3.0. >> >> It has been deprecated since 2.2, so it'd be no surprise if it went away. > > There's a difference between "it'd be no surprise" and "it should be > no surpise". While I agree in theory they are the same, in practice, > they are not. That's the difference between theory and practice. :-) Yep, you're right. >> Also, it would be easy to detect METH_OLDARGS in PyCFunction_New and raise >> an appropriate exception. > > I agree with Martin this should raise a deprecation warning in 2.5. Patch is at #1496957 (another one for converting Tkinter is at #1496952). Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
