[issue47115] Documentation inconsistency with the stable ABI

Petr Viktorin added the comment: New changeset d79f118d044e9b4244b5dfda35448d39202d7f56 by Petr Viktorin in branch 'main': bpo-47115: Document which parts of structs are in limited API/stable ABI (GH-32196) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d79f118d044e9b4244b5dfda35448d39202d7f56

[issue47115] Documentation inconsistency with the stable ABI

Change by Petr Viktorin : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +30272 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/32196 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue47115] Documentation inconsistency with the stable ABI

Petr Viktorin added the comment: So. According to PEP 384 (which added all structs in the stable ABI, except Py_buffer), some structs are opaque and others have a few members exposed: https://peps.python.org/pep-0384/#structures I will split the latter into 1) structs that have a few fields

[issue47115] Documentation inconsistency with the stable ABI

Petr Viktorin added the comment: Thanks for the report! You're right that this is misleading. I'll clarify the docs for this and other structs. - struct PyTypeObject is part if the limited API. - its fields and size are not part of the API or stable ABI. --

[issue47115] Documentation inconsistency with the stable ABI

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[issue47115] Documentation inconsistency with the stable ABI

New submission from Jeremiah Gabriel Pascual : In https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/typeobj.html#static-types, it says that PyTypeObject isn't part of the stable ABI. Yet, in https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/type.html#c.PyTypeObject, it says that PyTypeObject IS part of the stable ABI. Which is