https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0d87bb66d3c2fc6331c3b1f9d649ebc9bb385c5a commit: 0d87bb66d3c2fc6331c3b1f9d649ebc9bb385c5a branch: 3.14 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: encukou <[email protected]> date: 2025-07-21T12:29:51Z summary:
[3.14] gh-121028: Soft-deprecate sys.api_version (GH-136463) (GH-136928) (cherry picked from commit 658599c15d13ee3a5cb56c3d9fccaa195465d4b5) Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/sys.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 05bc7cfb9dc089..52f0af31c68726 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -2191,8 +2191,11 @@ always available. Unless explicitly noted otherwise, all variables are read-only .. data:: api_version - The C API version for this interpreter. Programmers may find this useful when - debugging version conflicts between Python and extension modules. + The C API version, equivalent to the C macro :c:macro:`PYTHON_API_VERSION`. + Defined for backwards compatibility. + + Currently, this constant is not updated in new Python versions, and is not + useful for versioning. This may change in the future. .. data:: version_info _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
