On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:19:16 +0200 Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: > Am 12.10.2013 20:20, schrieb Serhiy Storchaka: > > 12.10.13 21:04, Georg Brandl написав(ла): > >> in light of the recent thread about PEPs not forming part of the docs, > >> I've just pushed a change that allows to document C API elements > >> not part of the limited API as such. It is done like this: > >> > >> ... c:function:: int _PyTuple_Resize(PyObject **p, Py_ssize_t newsize) > >> :notlimited: > >> > >> I have not yet begun adding these to the documents; if someone wants to > >> help with this I am glad for volunteers. > > > > Why this is needed? The limited API is unstable and only developers of > > CPython can use it (but they can look in headers). > > Well, I may be reading PEP 384 wrongly, but the point is exactly to have a > *stable* API for *non-core* developers to rely upon, so that they can build > extensions that don't need to be recompiled for every version of Python.
This is true. However, I find the proposed markup not very enlightening :-) I would prefer if "limited" APIs where marked with a :stableabi: tag. ("limited API" is really a bad synonym for "stable ABI" IMO) 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