[Python-3000] Last minute C API fixes

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2008, at 5:09 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
>>>> Is it too late for that ?
>>>
>>> That kind of depends on how far other 3rd party projects are in
>>> porting their extensions to Py3k, and how much they've bought into
>>> these APIs. I recall that mechanically translating these APIs to
>>> something else can easily introduce memory leaks.
>>
>> True, but isn't it better to go through that pain for a few extensions
>> now and then have a proper C API to use in 3.1 ? Otherwise, we end
>> up having to support those APIs for the whole lifetime
>> of the 3.x branch.
>>
>> Note that those two APIs are not documented, so their use is not
>> yet officially allowed.
>
> I'd prefer not introducing such instability this late in the beta processes,
> but I agree that fixing it now will be better in the long term.

I see this as a sufficient endorsement. Marc-Andre, can you do this?

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