Re: [Python-Dev] Experiment an opt-in new C API for Python? (leave current API unchanged)

2018-11-12 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 3:19 PM Victor Stinner wrote: > Le sam. 10 nov. 2018 à 04:02, Nathaniel Smith a écrit : > > So is it fair to say that your plan is that CPython will always use > > the current ("old") API internally, and the "new" API will be > > essentially an abstraction layer, that's

Re: [Python-Dev] Experiment an opt-in new C API for Python? (leave current API unchanged)

2018-11-12 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 5:50 PM Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Victor Stinner > wrote: > > Ah, important points. I don't want to touch the current C API nor make > > it less efficient. And compatibility in both directions (current C API > > <=> new C API) is very