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Author scoder
Recipients Tim.Graham, rhettinger, scoder, serhiy.storchaka, skrah, vstinner
Date 2017-07-13.06:28:22
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> Are all uses of internal CPython details optional?

Well, what classifies as a "CPython detail" sometimes just becomes clear when other implementations don't have it. ;-)

But yes, the C code that Cython generates selects alternative implementations based on some more or less generic C defines, e.g. CYTHON_COMPILING_IN_CPYTHON or CYTHON_USE_PYLONG_INTERNALS or CYTHON_ASSUME_SAFE_MACROS. We enable them based on the Python implementation and even users can disable them at need. Well, and then there are obviously tons of PY_VERSION_HEX specific special cases, such as this one.


> I would disable them by default for alpha versions of CPython.

I don't see why. We track the CPython development via travis-CI and alpha versions make us aware of changes that we need to incorporate (or sometimes fight against ;-) ). These internals very rarely change across CPython releases (e.g. the PyLong type didn't really change since 3.0/2.7.0), and this one is really an exception. Excluding alpha versions would probably reduce our response time to these changes.
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