Message 390963 - Python tracker

Message390963

Author	vstinner
Recipients	andrewvaughanj, eric.smith, matrixise, miss-islington, scoder, vstinner
Date	2021-04-13.13:31:26
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Stéphane Wirtel: "In fact, _Py_ctype_table is limited to the internal parts of the interpreter. So in this case, this one could not be used in an external tool. You can read: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/stable.html" You're right that pyctype.h is excluded from the limited C API. But almost all C extensions use the "regular" C API which includes header files in Include/cpython/. The internal C API is something different: header files in Include/internal/. I know that it's complicated, that why a README was written :-) https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Include/README.rst

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Stéphane Wirtel: "In fact, _Py_ctype_table is limited to the internal parts of the interpreter. So in this case, this one could not be used in an external tool. You can read: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/stable.html"

You're right that pyctype.h is excluded from the limited C API. But almost all C extensions use the "regular" C API which includes header files in Include/cpython/.

The internal C API is something different: header files in Include/internal/.

I know that it's complicated, that why a README was written :-)
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Include/README.rst

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