[Python-Dev] Remove METH_OLDARGS?

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Sun May 28 09:17:00 CEST 2006


> In the process of reviewing and possibly extending getargs.c, I stumbled
> over the "compatibility" flag supposedly used for METH_OLDARGS functions.
> No code in the core uses this calling convention any more, and it has been
> deprecated for quite a long time (since 2.2), so would it be appropriate to 
> end
> support for it in 2.5?

FWIW, I wouldn't miss it, nor would any of the code I've ever seen.


Raymond 


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