Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Sun Jul 8 00:13:27 EDT 2018

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On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 6:38 AM, Mark Shannon <mark at hotpy.org> wrote:
> 1. The new API should be fully backwards compatible and shouldn't break the
> ABI

Which ABI? The stable ABI (PEP 384)? I don't think object layout is
exposed there, though I'm not sure of the details.

The regular ABI that almost everyone actually uses? That's already
broken on every minor release, so you shouldn't spend any time
worrying about preserving compatibility there.

-n

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