[issue32086] C API: Clarify which C functions are safe to be called before Py_Initialize()

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

Issue 32096 covers reverting the change to PyDecode_Locale specifically for 3.7.

We can use this issue to ask the broader question "Do we want to *deprecate* our previously implied support for calling PyDecode_Locale() before Py_Initialize()?"

If the answer is "Yes", then we need to design a transition plan to a different API for setting config parameters that accept "wchar_t *".

If the answer is "No", then we need to document that design constraint on the affected APIs.

Either way, we should also improve the way we communicate the list of C API methods that can be safely called before Py_Initialize.

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nosy: +ncoghlan

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