On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 at 03:23 Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A number of public typedef names without the "Py" prefix survived the > Grand Renaming [1]. A couple of new names without the "Py" prefix were > added after the Grand Renaming (e.g. getter and setter [2]). > > That names were included in the Stable ABI. The long list of such names > can be found in PEP 384 [3]: > > unaryfunc binaryfunc ternaryfunc inquiry lenfunc ssizeargfunc > ssizessizeargfunc ssizeobjargproc ssizessizeobjargproc objobjargproc > objobjproc visitproc traverseproc destructor getattrfunc getattrofunc > setattrfunc setattrofunc reprfunc hashfunc richcmpfunc getiterfunc > iternextfunc descrgetfunc descrsetfunc initproc newfunc allocfunc getter > setter > > And I suppose new names were added since Python 3.2. > > A couple of underscored name without the "_Py" prefix (e.g. _object, > _typeobject) are defined when include "Python.h". > > Should we to do something with this? Maybe add Py-prefixed aliases and > temporary keep old names for compatibility (but allow to hide them if > define a special macro)? > I think we should at least add aliases somehow. Maybe in a Py4k world we can update the stable ABI and drop names that re not properly prefixed.
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