Josh Rosenberg <shadowranger+pyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Batteries-included extension modules aren't limited to the public and/or limited API; they use tons of undocumented internal APIs (everything to do with Py_IDENTIFIERs being an obvious and frequently used non-public API). _PyObject_LookupSpecial is necessary to lookup special methods on the class of an instance (bypassing the instance itself) when no C level slot is associated with the special method (e.g. the math module using it to look up __ceil__ to implement math.ceil). Sure, each of these modules could reimplement it from scratch, but I'm not seeing the point in doing so. ---------- nosy: +josh.r _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35438> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
