[Python-checkins] r63672 - in python/trunk: Include/Python.h Include/bytearrayobject.h Include/bytesobject.h Include/pythonrun.h Include/stringobject.h Objects/bytesobject.c Objects/object.c Objects/stringobject.c Objects/unicodeobject.c Python/bltinmodule.c Python/pythonrun.c

[Christian Heimes]

Nick Coghlan schrieb:
> stringobject.h could probably use a prominent comment explaining the
> benefits of doing it this way though. Since people are going to have to
> recompile their modules anyway for the new 2.6 release, what gain is
> there really in keeping the PyString_* names as the ones that are
> visible to the linker? Recompiling the extensions is necessarily going
> to involve relinking them as well, so picking up the new names being
> exported by Python binary shouldn't be an issue.

It's an issue for a bunch of projects that don't use the header files.
For example any code involving ctypes and PythonDotNET (the .NET
bindings for CPython) are directly accessing the ABI.

Christian