[Python-3000] PyObject_HEAD_INIT

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 00:45:01 CET 2008


Terry Reedy wrote:
> Roger Binns wrote:
> 
>> The problem is that unless you are clairvoyant you have no way of
>> knowing about this change.  Even in rc3 the documentation shows the old
>> (wrong) way:
>>
>>   http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/extending/newtypes.html
>>
>> PyObject_HEAD_INIT is documented:
>>
>>   http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/search.html?q=PyObject_HEAD_INIT
>>
>> PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT is not:
>>
>>   http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/search.html?q=PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT
> 
> Whatever happens to PyObject..., that should be fixed.  Is there are
> tracker item yet?  A doc person will copy, paste, and format if given
> raw text.

I just created a release blocker pointing at this thread.

http://bugs.python.org/issue4385

Cheers,
Nick.

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