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| author | Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> | 2021-04-29 08:26:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-04-29 08:26:34 (GMT) |
| commit | 5bd0619533ed6587ce76402e9b0b118eb4d4dd09 (patch) | |
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bpo-43908: Document Static Types in the C API (GH-25710)
Update also PyTypeObject structure definition in the doc.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index b1ecaae..c958bf4 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -352,7 +352,8 @@ PEP 590: Vectorcall: a fast calling protocol for CPython :ref:`vectorcall` is added to the Python/C API. It is meant to formalize existing optimizations which were already done for various classes. -Any static type implementing a callable can use this protocol. +Any :ref:`static type <static-types>` implementing a callable can use this +protocol. This is currently provisional. The aim is to make it fully public in Python 3.9. @@ -2040,7 +2041,7 @@ Changes in the C API This makes types created through :c:func:`PyType_FromSpec` behave like other classes in managed code. - Statically allocated types are not affected. + :ref:`Statically allocated types <static-types>` are not affected. For the vast majority of cases, there should be no side effect. However, types that manually increase the reference count after allocating |