[Python-Dev] Can we use "designated initializer" widely in core modules?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:44:29 +0100
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My patch adds Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_FINALIZE and Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_FASTCALL to
> Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT. So all modules compiled with Python 3.7 will
> announce that they have tp_finalize and tp_fastcall fields, even if
> they are NULL. I don't know why this change wasn't done before for
> tp_finalize.

I don't think I thought about that idea at the time.  tp_finalize
doesn't benefit many extension types, so it's not a huge burden to add
a FLAGS value for the few cases where you want to use it.

Regards

Antoine.