[issue44727] Stable ABI should avoid `enum`

Petr Viktorin added the comment: As far as I can see, the current enums in the stable ABI are: PySendResult from object.h, return value of PyObject_Send: typedef enum { PYGEN_RETURN = 0, PYGEN_ERROR = -1, PYGEN_NEXT = 1, } PySendResult; (This is unlikely to

[issue44727] Stable ABI should avoid `enum`

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[issue44727] Stable ABI should avoid `enum`

Petr Viktorin added the comment: Devguide PR: https://github.com/python/devguide/pull/730 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue44727] Stable ABI should avoid `enum`

New submission from Petr Viktorin : Adding a new enumerator to a C enum can change the size of the type, which would break the ABI. This is not often a problem in practice, but the rules around when it is a problem and when it isn't are complicated enough that I believe enum should not be