Message 309264 - Python tracker

Message309264

Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	belopolsky, ncoghlan, p-ganssle, tim.peters
Date	2017-12-31.04:30:01
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On 31 December 2017 at 01:34, Paul Ganssle <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > That said, I think it would be really good if we could get a fast path for timezone creation and access to the UTC singleton into the Python 3.7 release. I think it's kind of a big disparity between the Python and C APIs that's existed for too long already. It turns out the API already is exported as a capsule: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Include/datetime.h#L149 Our general guidance for capsule usage is just outdated, and the datetime API follows that dated advice: https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html#providing-a-c-api-for-an-extension-module I'll file a separate issue for that docs problem later (the tracker is reporting 502 Proxy Error for me right now)

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On 31 December 2017 at 01:34, Paul Ganssle <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> That said, I think it would be really good if we could get a fast path for timezone creation and access to the UTC singleton into the Python 3.7 release. I think it's kind of a big disparity between the Python and C APIs that's existed for too long already.

It turns out the API already *is* exported as a capsule:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Include/datetime.h#L149

Our general guidance for capsule usage is just outdated, and the
datetime API follows that dated advice:
https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html#providing-a-c-api-for-an-extension-module

I'll file a separate issue for that docs problem later (the tracker is
reporting 502 Proxy Error for me right now)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2017-12-31 04:30:13	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, tim.peters, belopolsky, p-ganssle
2017-12-31 04:30:11	ncoghlan	link	issue10381 messages
2017-12-31 04:30:02	ncoghlan	create