On Apr 20, 2012, at 09:59 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
As I clean up Python/import.c and move much of its functionality into
Lib/imp.py, I am about to run into some stuff that was not kept private to
the file. Specifically, I have PyImport_GetMagicTag() and NullImporter_Type
which I would like to chop
From my reading of PEP 384 that means I would need to at least deprecate
PyImport_getMagicTag(), correct (assuming I follow through with this; I
might not bother)?
All that PEP 384 gives you is that you MAY deprecate certain API
(namely, all API not guaranteed as stable). If an API is not in
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 16:55, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote:
From my reading of PEP 384 that means I would need to at least deprecate
PyImport_getMagicTag(), correct (assuming I follow through with this; I
might not bother)?
All that PEP 384 gives you is that you MAY deprecate
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:10, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote:
On Apr 20, 2012, at 09:59 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
As I clean up Python/import.c and move much of its functionality into
Lib/imp.py, I am about to run into some stuff that was not kept private to
the file. Specifically, I
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Brett Cannon br...@python.org wrote:
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:10, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote:
Strictly speaking, I do think you need to deprecate the APIs. I like
Nick's
suggestion to make them C wrappers which just call back into Python.
That
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 20:54, Eric Snow ericsnowcurren...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Brett Cannon br...@python.org wrote:
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:10, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote:
Strictly speaking, I do think you need to deprecate the APIs. I like
Nick's
As I clean up Python/import.c and move much of its functionality into
Lib/imp.py, I am about to run into some stuff that was not kept private to
the file. Specifically, I have PyImport_GetMagicTag() and NullImporter_Type
which I would like to chop out and move to Lib/imp.py.
From my reading of
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Brett Cannon br...@python.org wrote:
As I clean up Python/import.c and move much of its functionality into
Lib/imp.py, I am about to run into some stuff that was not kept private to
the file. Specifically, I have PyImport_GetMagicTag() and NullImporter_Type
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org wrote:
Yeah, PyImporter_GetMagicTag() looks like a public API, parallel with
PyImporter_GetMagicNumber(). Maybe it was accidentally not documented?
I'm not sure when it was introduced. Should we even deprecate it? I'd
say do
