[Python-Dev] Re: API change in 2.2.1c1

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:54:11 -0500


Jeremy Hylton writes:
 > I think the cell change is a pure bug fix.  The VAR_HEAD was
 > leftover from the days (perhaps just one day) when I thought
 > that a cell would contain multiple pointers.  The cell
 > objects aren't documented (so far as I know) and are only
 > used internally to implemented nested scopes.

http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/cell-objects.html

I'm pretty sure I asked you to proofread that at one point, though I
don't recall whether you did.


  -Fred

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