[Python-Dev] Documenting the private C API (was Re: Questions about signal handling.)

[Yury Selivanov]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 3:27 PM Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
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> On Sep 25, 2018, at 12:09, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My main concern with maintaining a *separate* documentation of
> > internals is that it would make it harder to keep it in sync with the
> > actual implementation.  We often struggle to keep the comments in the
> > code in sync with that code.
>
> Well, my goal is that the internal API would show up when I search for function names on docs.python.org.   Right now, I believe the “quick search” box does search the entire documentation suite.  I don’t care too much whether they would reside in a separate section in the current C API, or in a separate directory, listed or not under “Parts of the documentation” on the front landing page.  But I agree they shouldn’t be intermingled with the public C API.

An idea: it would be cool to have something like Sphinx autodoc for C
headers to pull this documentation from source.

Yury