[Python-Dev] Difference between Include/internal and Include/cpython ?

[Ammar Askar]

This is the discussion where it was named:
https://discuss.python.org/t/poll-what-is-your-favorite-name-for-the-new-include-subdirectory/477?u=ammaraskar
and the bug explaining the motivation: https://bugs.python.org/issue35134

>(and why the additional "pycore_XXX.h" naming convention for some ofthose files?)

"* Include/internal/pycore_*.h is the "internal" API"

On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 10:20 AM Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Can someone explain why we have two separate directories
> Include/internal and Include/cpython?  What is the rule for declaring an
> API inside one or another?
>
> At first sight, it seems to me we're having gratuitous complication
> here.  For example, I notice that PyFloat_Fini() is declared in
> Include/cpython/pylifecycle.h but PyLong_Fini() is declared in
> Include/internal/pycore_pylifecycle.h?
>
> (and why the additional "pycore_XXX.h" naming convention for some of
> those files?)
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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