[Tim]
>> Read the tail end of the PyMem_ docs (PyMem_UPPERCASE is
>> supposedly already deprecated, but only in extension modules).
[martin@v.loewis.de]
> There is something wrong here, then.
That's for sure <wink>.
> The author of this documentation clearly meant that they are *internal*,
> and thus should have been called _PyMem_UPPERCASE.
I doubt the author meant that: in 1.5.2, PyMem_DEL was the only "legal" way
to free object memory, and even if people didn't know that from reading the
docs, they picked it up via copying Python's Objects/xxmodule.c (which used
PyMem_DEL through revision 2.15).
> I'd be in favour of renaming them, thus actively breaking extension
> modules that use them at compile time.
That would break every extension type written for 1.5.2; the relevant ones
from Neil's random sampling are:
DB2-Python-0.991
Allocates with PyObject_NEW and deallocates with PyMem_DEL
DCOracle-1.3.1b1
Allocates with PyObject_NEW and deallocates with PyMem_DEL
Kinterbasdb
Allocates with PyObject_NEW and deallocates with PyMem_DEL
PyGreSQL-3.3-pre011203
Allocates with PyObject_NEW and deallocates with PyMem_DEL
avl-2.0
Allocates with PyObject_NEW and deallocates with PyMem_DEL
sybase-0.33
Allocates with PyObject_NEW and deallocates with PyMem_DEL
pysdl-0.0.7
Allocates with PyObject_NEW and deallocates with PyMem_DEL
pyshout-0.0.6
Allocates with PyObject_NEW and deallocates with PyMem_DEL
pwin
Allocates with PyObject_NEW and deallocates with PyMem_DEL
I'm all in favor of deprecating PyMem_DEL, so long as deprecation doesn't
mean anything <wink -- but the sampling above tells me how seriously people
have taken the existing claim of deprecation>.
An alternative-- which no longer poses an implementation problem --is to say
that from 2.3 onward, PyMem_Del, PyMem_DEL, PyObject_Del, PyObject_DEL,
PyObject_FREE, and PyObject_Free, are all exactly the same thing (as has
always been true in reality, except when pymalloc was enabled in 2.2 or
before). At least 4 of those spellings should be deprecated then, but
gently. Whether PyMem_Free and PyMem_FREE also belong in that pile isn't
clear.
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