On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Please consider this: even without relying on PEP 384, using FILE* > is /already/ dangerous; because you might compile an extension with a > different compiler version than Python was compiled with. So, if we were > following you, we should rip out PyObject_Print() of the whole C API, > not only the limited subset which is defined by PEP 384. > > (now I have nothing against completely ripping out PyObject_Print() if > we find out that it's not really useful...)
I think it would be better if everything dealing with FILE* was a macro rather than a function, yes. The definition of the limited API is a chance to fix that without incurring the cost in backwards incompatibility that would otherwise arise. Since we have that opportunity, why not take it? Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
