On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> wrote: > Once the cmp removal is complete, the type object's tp_compare > slot will no longer be used. The current plan is to rename it to > tp_reserved, change its type to (void *), and raise TypeError when > initializing any type that attempts to put something nonzero into > that slot. But another possibility would be to remove it entirely. > So...
I think we should keep as tp_reserved in 3.0.1. In 3.1, as I mentioned in the issue, I'd like to reuse it as a slot for __bytes__. Confusion could be avoided still raising a TypeError for a non-null tp_reserved slot unless the type has Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_BYTES flag set. After a while, we could just make it default. > > N.B. The same questions apply to nb_reserved (which used > to be nb_long) in the PyNumberMethods structure. IMO, it's fine to keep them around, just in case. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
