[Python-Dev] API bloat

[Nick Coghlan]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Mark Shannon <marks at dcs.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> OK, so UnicodeError_xxx is important for codecs, but surely this sort of
> argument could be made for lots of things.
> Don't forget that for each function added to the API,
> all other implementations have to support it forever.

Other implementations that want to support CPython extensions should
focus their efforts on the limited API defined in PEP 384. That will
not only be a lot easier, it will also be less of a moving target.

Cheers,
Nick.

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