On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > Also changing it now would be a giant hassle, leading to so-called "const > poisoning" where many, many APIs need to be changed before everything would > again work.
The poisoning will not break any users of the API, though, since they can pass const and non-const pointers. Internally Python would have to go through and add const keywords as appropriate when passing strings around. IMO it's worth it to not cause this warning for users. Reid _______________________________________________ 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
