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Author	eric.smith
Recipients	eric.smith, georg.brandl
Date	2009-10-19.00:59:57
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Message-id	<1255914000.67.0.0340372687957.issue7168@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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These functions are unsafe and I'd like to delete them. They've already been deleted in py3k, per PEP 3100. They are no longer used internally to the interpreter. They should be documented as deprecated and as unsafe. They write to a char* parameter, but don't take a length, so they could overwrite the passed-in buffer. There's some argument to be made that we should also document PyFloat_AsStringEx, which is also deprecated and unsafe. But it is not in a .h file in 2.4, 2.5, or 2.6, so I'd like to just delete it for 2.7.

These functions are unsafe and I'd like to delete them. They've already
been deleted in py3k, per PEP 3100. They are no longer used internally
to the interpreter.

They should be documented as deprecated and as unsafe. They write to a
char* parameter, but don't take a length, so they could overwrite the
passed-in buffer.

There's some argument to be made that we should also document
PyFloat_AsStringEx, which is also deprecated and unsafe. But it is not
in a .h file in 2.4, 2.5, or 2.6, so I'd like to just delete it for 2.7.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-10-19 01:00:00	eric.smith	set	recipients: + eric.smith, georg.brandl
2009-10-19 01:00:00	eric.smith	set	messageid: <1255914000.67.0.0340372687957.issue7168@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-10-19 00:59:58	eric.smith	link	issue7168 messages
2009-10-19 00:59:57	eric.smith	create