On 11/30/05, Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/30/05, Thomas Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Quick semi-related question: where are the marshal_* functions called? > > They're all static in Python-ast.c and don't seem to be actually called > > anywhere. Can we ditch them? > > I *think* they are not necessary. My guess is that they were there > for marshaling the AST to disk, though I'm not sure why we would want > to do that. It could have been there was the idea of how they would > be marshalled to PyObjects and exported. > > Unless you hear otherwise from Jeremy, I would probably remove them. > > I can check your patch into the branch so others can get an idea and > hopefully provide comments.
The intent was to share the AST objects between C and Python by coping them. I still think passing copies is better than sharing live objects between Python and C, although the specific mechanism may be different if the C objects are PyObjects. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
