Hi, Currently, Python has 3 C API:
* python core API * regular API: subset of the core API * stable API (ABI?), the Py_LIMITED_API thing: subset of the regular API For practical purpose, all functions are declared in Include/*.h. Basically, Python exposes "everything". There are private functions which are exported using PyAPI_FUNC(), whereas they should only be used inside Python "core". Technically, I'm not sure that we can get ride of PyAPI_FUNC() because the stdlib also has extensions which use a few private functions. For Python 3.7, I propose that we move all these private functions in separated header files, maybe Include/private/ or Include/core/, and not export them as part of the "regular API". The risk is that too many C extensions rely on all these tiny "private" functions. Maybe for performance. I don't know. What do you think? See also the issue #26900, "Exclude the private API from the stable API": http://bugs.python.org/issue26900 Victor _______________________________________________ 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
