[Python-Dev] Proposed: drop unnecessary "context" pointer from PyGetSetDef

[Larry Hastings]

Mark Dickinson wrote:
> Still, binary compatibility seems like a fairly strong reason not to
> remove the closure field.

My understanding is that there a) 2.x extension modules are not binary 
compatible with 3.x, and b) there are essentially no 3.x extension 
modules in the field.  Is that accurate?  If we don't have an installed 
base (yet) to worry about, now's the time to make this change.


/larry/