➜

This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author pitrou
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, dgreiman, eli.bendersky, ext-, gustavo, pitrou
Date 2013-05-13.21:11:53
SpamBayes Score -1.0
Marked as misclassified Yes
Message-id <1368479513.78.0.339879030029.issue1772673@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
In-reply-to
Content 
> For external APIs visible to user code, this can cause some
> compatibility problems and users may need to at the very least
> re-compile this code.

Can you explain exactly which compatibility problems this would cause?

Actually, the point is precisely to make life easier for third-party code, since "const char *" is more accepting than "char *".
History
Date User Action Args
2013-05-13 21:11:53pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, gustavo, dgreiman, ext-, eli.bendersky
2013-05-13 21:11:53pitrousetmessageid: <1368479513.78.0.339879030029.issue1772673@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2013-05-13 21:11:53pitroulinkissue1772673 messages
2013-05-13 21:11:53pitroucreate