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authorPetr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>2021-04-23 12:23:38 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-04-23 12:23:38 (GMT)
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bpo-43868: Remove PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer from the stable ABI list (GH-25442)
The inclusion of PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer in python3dll.c was a mistake. According to PEP 384: > functions expecting FILE* are not part of the ABI, to avoid depending > on a specific version of the Microsoft C runtime DLL on Windows. https://bugs.python.org/issue43868
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@@ -1740,6 +1740,12 @@ Removed
Use Python :mod:`symtable` module instead.
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`43244`.)
+* Remove :c:func:`PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer` from the limited C API headers
+ and from ``python3.dll``, the library that provides the stable ABI on
+ Windows. Since the function takes a ``FILE*`` argument, its ABI stability
+ cannot be guaranteed.
+ (Contributed by Petr Viktorin in :issue:`43868`.)
+
* Remove ``ast.h``, ``asdl.h``, and ``Python-ast.h`` header files.
These functions were undocumented and excluded from the limited C API.
Most names defined by these header files were not prefixed by ``Py`` and so