On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 23:26:31 -0600 Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > > > PEP 3121 would no longer be necessary. Extension types can do all we need. > > No more special casing of modules, that was the idea. > > > > One nice thing about PEP 3121 is the addition of md_state to module objects > to store internal module state. Wouldn't we be better served by improving > the related API rather than abandoning it?
md_state isn't a PyObject and therefore its lifetime management is quirky (as Py_buffer, same bad idea). So I'd be happy for it to disappear from the next API. > This, coupled with the PEP 451-compatible API and with a proxying wrapper, > would go a long way to various "reloading" issues that extension modules > have. Proxying wrapper? We shouldn't need that kind of tricks. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
