On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:31:07 +0200 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > I've been thinking about extensions to the stable ABI. On the one hand, > introducing new API can cause extension modules not to run on older > Python versions. On the other hand, the new API may well be stable in > itself, i.e. remain available for all coming 3.x versions. > > As a compromise, I propose that such API can be added, but extension > authors must explicitly opt into using it. To define their desired > target Python versions, they need to set Py_LIMITED_API to the > hexversion of the first Python release they want to support.
Perhaps something more user-friendly than the hexversion? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
