[Python-Dev] Baffled by PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords modification

[Jack Jansen]

I keep running into problems with the "const" modifications to  
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() (rev. 41638 by Jeremy).

I have lots of code of the form
	char *kw[] = {"itself", 0};

	if (PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(_args, _kwds, "O&", kw,  
CFTypeRefObj_Convert, &itself)) ...
which now no longer compiles, neither with C nor with C++ (gcc4, both  
MacOSX and Linux). Changing the kw declaration to "const char *kw[]"  
makes it compile again.

I don't understand why it doesn't compile: even though the  
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords signature promises that it won't change  
the "kw" argument I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to pass a  
non-const argument.

And to make matters worse adding the "const" of course makes the code  
non-portable to previous versions of Python (where the C compiler  
rightly complains that I'm passing a const object through a non-const  
parameter).

Can anyone enlighten me?
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Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
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