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Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	Decorater, eric.snow, ncoghlan, ned.deily, vstinner
Date	2017-11-21.02:06:06
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Message-id	<1511229966.72.0.213398074469.issue32086@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Issue 32096 covers reverting the change to PyDecode_Locale specifically for 3.7. We can use this issue to ask the broader question "Do we want to deprecate our previously implied support for calling PyDecode_Locale() before Py_Initialize()?" If the answer is "Yes", then we need to design a transition plan to a different API for setting config parameters that accept "wchar_t *". If the answer is "No", then we need to document that design constraint on the affected APIs. Either way, we should also improve the way we communicate the list of C API methods that can be safely called before Py_Initialize.

Issue 32096 covers reverting the change to PyDecode_Locale specifically for 3.7.

We can use this issue to ask the broader question "Do we want to *deprecate* our previously implied support for calling PyDecode_Locale() before Py_Initialize()?"

If the answer is "Yes", then we need to design a transition plan to a different API for setting config parameters that accept "wchar_t *".

If the answer is "No", then we need to document that design constraint on the affected APIs.

Either way, we should also improve the way we communicate the list of C API methods that can be safely called before Py_Initialize.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2017-11-21 02:06:06	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, vstinner, ned.deily, eric.snow, Decorater
2017-11-21 02:06:06	ncoghlan	set	messageid: <1511229966.72.0.213398074469.issue32086@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2017-11-21 02:06:06	ncoghlan	link	issue32086 messages
2017-11-21 02:06:06	ncoghlan	create