[Python-Dev] API bloat

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Feb 10 17:36:47 CET 2011


> 
> Please, don't just document all these.
> Don't add them to the API, unless they are really needed.

We only add functions when they are actually needed (by us, usually).

> I'm not picking on PySys_FormatStderr, or its author here,
> I'm just using it as an example, it seems fairly typical.

You've found an exception.

Antoine.




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