[Python-Dev] Late Python 3.7.1 changes to fix the C locale coercion (PEP 538) implementation

[Yury Selivanov]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 4:26 PM Ned Deily <nad at python.org> wrote:
> On Sep 19, 2018, at 13:30, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
[..]
> > Currently it's designed to expose "PyContext*" and "PyContextVar*"
> > pointers.  I want to change that to "PyObject*" as using non-PyObject
> > pointers turned out to be a very bad idea (interfacing with Cython is
> > particularly challenging).
> >
> > Is it a good idea to change this in Python 3.7.1?
>
> It's hard to make an informed decision without a concrete PR to review.  What would be the impact on any user code that has already adopted it in 3.7.0?

Ned, I've created an issue to track this: https://bugs.python.org/issue34762

Yury