On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 11:42:15 -0800 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > If it's only a warning, I worry that if we stop checking the flag bits it > can cause wild pointer following. This sounds like it would be a potential > security issue (load a module, ignore the warning, try to use a certain API > on a class it defines, boom). Also, could there still be 3rd party modules > out there that haven't been recompiled in a really long time and use some > older backwards compatible module initialization API? (I guess we could > stop supporting that and let them fail hard.)
As far as I can tell, all the legacy APIs were removed when PEP 3121 was implemented (Python 3 allowed us to do a clean break here). 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
