[python-committers] Adding a hidden field to BaseException going to break the ABI?

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Sun Sep 13 22:30:33 CEST 2009
2009/9/13 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:
> issue6844 wants to stop a warning from being raised when someone
> accesses a 'message' attribute on an exception when it is set by the
> user (currently any usage of the 'message' attribute raises a
> warning). To do this properly is going to require some state flag on
> BaseException's struct. But I don't know if that constitutes breaking
> the ABI during a micro release or not. I figure no but I wanted to
> double-check.

Is the BaseException struct public?


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Regards,
Benjamin


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