STINNER Victor added the comment: Serhiy Storchaka: > When the fastcall protocol be changed, this would require changing more > handwritten code.
I don't plan to modify the fastcall protocol. I'm not sure that it's really possible to modify it anymore. It would probably be simpler to add a new protocol. But it may become a little bit annoying to have to support so many calling convention :-) So someone should come up with a serious rationale to add another one :-) I tried to make fastcall as private as possible, but recently I noticed that METH_FASTCALL is now public in Python 3.6 API (but hopefully excluded from the stable ABI). I know that it's already used by Cython since 0.25: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/cython-devel/2016-October/004959.html About the maintenance burden, I'm ok to handle it :-) My final goal is to use Argument Clinic everywhere. While converting existing code to AC is a slow process, I consider (from my recent experiences with AC) that the new code is easier to maintain! It's a slow process beause AC still has limitaitons, but also because it's used an opportunity to review (and enhance!) the existing docstrings. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29296> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
