Let's stop here. This API is doing no harm, it's not a maintenance burden, clearly *some* folks have a use for it. Let's just keep it, okay? There are bigger fish to fry.
On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 5:36 AM Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> wrote: > On 2019-04-05 15:13, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > > It is easy to implement a function in C. > > Why does it need to be a PyCFunction? You could put an actual method > descriptor in the class. In other words, use PyDescr_NewMethod() instead > of PyCFunction_New() + PyInstanceMethod_New(). It's probably going to be > faster too since the instancemethod adds an unoptimized extra level of > indirection. > > > Yes, this is what I want to do. I did not do this only because > > implementing method-like functions which which do not belong to concrete > > class implemented in C is not convention. > > Sure, you could implement separate methods like __gt__ in C, but that's > still less efficient than just implementing a specific tp_richcompare > for total_ordering and then having the usual wrapper descriptors for > __gt__. > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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