On 03/17/2011 07:23 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
As I understand it, the Pyxxx to PyCapsule CAPI warning was put in 2.7.
In 2.7, the CObject constructor PyCObject_FromVoidPtr() threw a
PendingDeprecationWarning exception. Like other warnings, these aren't
active by default. This still caused two problems:
* If you enabled warnings, PyCObject_FromVoidPtr() would return
NULL. There is definitely code out there that assumes
PyCObject_FromVoidPtr() always succeeds and doesn't bother
checking the pointer it gets back. That's a bad assumption, the
code is therefore buggy--but exposing these heretofore unnoticed
bugs caused problems.
* If you enabled warnings-as-errors, a PendingDeprecationWarning is
therefore an error. In some environments there's a requirement
that Python must build from scratch and pass its unit test suite
without errors, with warnings-as-errors turned on. Python 2.7
shipped with one module still using PyCObject_FromVoidPtr(),
bsddb, as it's externally maintained. (I wanted to change it to
use PyCapsule for 2.7 but was told to leave it alone.) bsddb's
test threw the warning, the warning was an error, now people had a
problem.
In 2.7.1 PyCObject_FromVoidPtr() now calls PyErr_WarnPy3k(). This means
it's been promoted to throwing DeprecationWarning! But that's also
guarded with Py_Py3kWarningFlag so it's not active unless you ask for
that too (as with "-3" on the command-line, etc).
/larry/
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