[Python-Dev] Hashing proposal: change only string-only dicts

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

2012/1/19 Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org>

> str[-1] is not likely to work if you want to maintain ABI compatibility.
>  Appending it to the data after the terminating \0 is more likely to be
> possible, but if there is any possibility that existing compiled extension
> modules have somehow inlined code to do allocation of the str field even
> that is questionable (i don't think there are?).


There are. Unfortunately.
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/numpy/core/src/multiarray/scalarapi.c#L710

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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