[issue1772673] Replacing char* with const char*

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> For external APIs visible to user code, this can cause some
> compatibility problems and users may need to at the very least
> re-compile this code.

Can you explain exactly which compatibility problems this would cause?

Actually, the point is precisely to make life easier for third-party code, since "const char *" is more accepting than "char *".

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nosy: +pitrou
stage:  -> needs patch
versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 2.7

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