> > Well, it depends how you define "user". When working on win32all, I am a > > developer. However, when knocking up a simple little extension for Python > > for some silly reason, I feel more like a user. > > It is definitely useful for the developer and that's what > I wanted to hint at: the user doesn't notice any change by > introducing "const". I see that my terminology was confusing: user: software author who uses the Python header files. developer: software author who writes them. Strictly speaking, computer users never "use" Python: they always use some Python application. So the Python "users" are always software authors. Of those, only the authors who write C extensions will notice a change. Sorry for the confusion. > I'm all for using "const" in new APIs too (I've added it to most > Unicode APIs for that reason), what worries me is that existing APIs > get converted. No need to worry. Nothing can break because of that. Regards, Martin
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