Issue 2408: remove the _types module

It was only used as a helper in types.py to access types (GetSetDescriptorType and MemberDescriptorType),
when they can easily be obtained with python code.
These expressions even work with Jython.

I don't know what the future of the types module is; (cf. discussion in http://bugs.python.org/issue1605 )
at least this change makes it simpler.

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 97 deletions

diff --git a/Modules/_typesmodule.c b/Modules/_typesmodule.c
deleted file mode 100644
index e925664..0000000
--- a/Modules/_typesmodule.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-/* This extension module exposes some types that are only available at the
- * C level.  It should not be used directly, but instead through the Python
- * level types modules, which imports this.
- */
-
-#include "Python.h"
-#include "structmember.h"
-
-typedef struct
-{
-    PyObject_HEAD
-    int member;
-} Helper;
-
-static PyMemberDef helper_members[] = {
-    { "member", T_INT,  offsetof(Helper, member), READONLY,
-      PyDoc_STR("A member descriptor")
-    },
-    { NULL }
-};
-
-static PyObject *
-helper_getter(Helper *self, void *unused) 
-{
-    Py_RETURN_NONE;
-}
-
-static PyGetSetDef helper_getset[] = {
-    { "getter", (getter)helper_getter, NULL,
-      PyDoc_STR("A getset descriptor"),
-    },
-    { NULL }
-};
-
-static PyTypeObject HelperType = {
-    PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL, 0)
-    "_types.Helper",				/* tp_name */
-    sizeof(Helper),                             /* tp_basicsize */
-    0,						/* tp_itemsize */
-    0,						/* tp_dealloc */
-    0,						/* tp_print */
-    0,						/* tp_getattr */
-    0,						/* tp_setattr */
-    0,						/* tp_compare */
-    0,                                          /* tp_repr */
-    0,                                          /* tp_as_number */
-    0,						/* tp_as_sequence */
-    0,						/* tp_as_mapping */
-    0,                                          /* tp_hash */
-    0,              				/* tp_call */
-    0,          				/* tp_str */
-    0,                                          /* tp_getattro */
-    0,						/* tp_setattro */
-    0,						/* tp_as_buffer */
-    Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT,                         /* tp_flags */
-    0,      					/* tp_doc */
-    0,						/* tp_traverse */
-    0,						/* tp_clear */
-    0,                                          /* tp_richcompare */
-    0,						/* tp_weaklistoffset */
-    0,						/* tp_iter */
-    0,						/* tp_iternext */
-    0,      					/* tp_methods */
-    helper_members,                             /* tp_members */
-    helper_getset,                              /* tp_getset */
-    0,						/* tp_base */
-    0,						/* tp_dict */
-    0,						/* tp_descr_get */
-    0,						/* tp_descr_set */
-    0,						/* tp_dictoffset */
-    0,						/* tp_init */
-    0,						/* tp_alloc */
-    0,                                          /* tp_new */
-    0,						/* tp_free */
-};
-
-PyMODINIT_FUNC
-init_types(void)
-{
-    PyObject *m;
-
-    m = Py_InitModule3("_types", NULL, "A types module helper");
-    if (!m)
-        return;
-
-    if (PyType_Ready(&HelperType) < 0)
-        return;
-
-    Py_INCREF(&HelperType);
-    PyModule_AddObject(m, "Helper", (PyObject *)&HelperType);
-}
-
-    
diff --git a/Modules/config.c.in b/Modules/config.c.in
index 1ef1e66..f811991 100644
--- a/Modules/config.c.in
+++ b/Modules/config.c.in
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ extern void PyMarshal_Init(void);
 extern void initimp(void);
 extern void initgc(void);
 extern void init_ast(void);
-extern void init_types(void);
 
 struct _inittab _PyImport_Inittab[] = {
 
@@ -43,9 +42,6 @@ struct _inittab _PyImport_Inittab[] = {
 	/* This lives in Python/Python-ast.c */
 	{"_ast", init_ast},
 
-	/* This lives in Modules/_typesmodule.c */
-	{"_types", init_types},
-
 	/* These entries are here for sys.builtin_module_names */
 	{"__main__", NULL},
 	{"__builtin__", NULL},