Message 353884 - Python tracker

Message353884

Author	vstinner
Recipients	Mark.Shannon, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, jdemeyer, larry, lukasz.langa, methane, miss-islington, nascheme, ned.deily, pablogsal, petr.viktorin, pitrou, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2019-10-03.22:41:55
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> Or even fatal error out? There's no reason to have Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC but not implement tp_traverse, AFAIR. Well... It would prefer a smooth transition. Such sanity checks which mostly concerns developers perfectly fit the -X dev mode. I mean, calling Py_FatalError() only in development mode would be acceptable, rather than blocking the usage of C extensions which are working "perfectly well" on Python 3.7.

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> Or even fatal error out?  There's no reason to have Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC but not implement tp_traverse, AFAIR.

Well... It would prefer a smooth transition.

Such sanity checks which mostly concerns developers perfectly fit the -X dev mode.

I mean, calling Py_FatalError() only in development mode would be acceptable, rather than blocking the usage of C extensions which are working "perfectly well" on Python 3.7.

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