[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Stabilizing the C API of 2.6 and 3.0

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-06-03 01:09, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I will freely admit that I haven't followed this thread in any detail,
> but if it were up to me, I'd have the 2.6 internal code use PyString
> (as both what the linker sees and what the human reads in the source
> code) and the 3.0 code use PyBytes for the same thing. Let the merges
> be damed -- most changes to 2.6 these days seem to be blocked
> explicitly from being merged anyway. I'd prefer the 2.6 code base to
> stay true to 2.x, and the 3.0 code base start afresh where it makes
> sense. We should reindent more of the 3.0 code base to use
> 4-space-indents in C code too.
> 
> I would also add macros that map the PyBytes_* APIs to PyString_*, but
> I would not start using these internally except in code newly written
> for 2.6 and intended to be "in the spirit of 3.0". IOW use PyString
> for 8-bit strings containing text, and PyBytes for 8-bit strings
> containing binary data. For 8-bit strings that could contain either
> text or data, I'd use PyString, in the spirit of 2.x.

+1

Let's work on better merge tools that edit the trunk code base
into shape for a 3.x checkin.

Using automated tools for this
is likely going to lower the probability of bugs introduced
due to unnoticed merge conflicts and in the end is also going
to be a benefit to everyone wanting to maintain a single code
base for both targets.

Perhaps we could revive the old Tools/scripts/fixcid.py that was
used for the 1.4->1.5 renaming ?!

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