[XML-SIG] [Q] xml.utils.boolean C API

[Uche Ogbuji]

> On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 13:10, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> > 
> > The C API to the boolean module, expressed in extensions/boolean.h,
> > does not appear to be used.  It certainly can't be used as-is when the
> > module is built to be dynamically loaded.  The boolean_new() function
> > it references is not present in boolean.c at all.
> 
> It confused me as well.  But it is actually used.  In the init of the
> module, we expose a ref to false and true.  The are the only two
> instances of boolean ever created.
> 
> > 
> > Is there any reason this header is used, or can the needed information
> > simply be merged into the implementation?
> > 
> > The implementation also uses DL_EXPORT for a few things that should be
> > static, and almost nobody outside the Python core needs to use the
> > tp_print slot; the use made by this code is certainly avoidable in
> > efficient ways.
> > 
> > Uche, Mike, et al.:  any objection to a little cleanup here?
> 
> Not at all.  Though, you might need to here from Jeremy before you do
> much as he wrote it.

No.  I wrote it.  There is for sure nothing there that Fred can't handle 
easily.


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