Hi Nick, On 23.08.17 07:41, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 23 August 2017 at 00:09, stackless <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> I am trying to support the limited Api (PEP 384) for PySide. Fortunately, >> everything worked out of the box, just the datetime module gives me >> a problem. Inspection showed that datetime is completely removed >> when the limitation is set. >> >> Can somebody enlighten me why that needs to be so? > > The main problem is that "datetime.h" defines several C structs that > we wouldn't want to add to the stable ABI, and nobody has previously > worked through details of the interface to see which parts of it could > still be used even if those structs were made opaque, and the macros > relying on them were switched to being functions instead. > > There are almost certainly pieces of it that *could* be usefully > exposed, though. > >> And how should I use datetime, instead: Fish the functions out of >> the dynamically imported datetime module? > > Yep, going via the Python level API rather than directly to the C API > is the default answer, as that inherently hides any struct layout > details behind PyObject*.
Thank you very much for the clarification. I think we can live with the Python interface for now. Now I'm sure that I'm going the way to go. Cheers -- Chris -- Christian Tismer :^) [email protected] Software Consulting : http://www.stackless.com/ Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 121 : https://github.com/PySide 14482 Potsdam : GPG key -> 0xFB7BEE0E phone +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 (30) 700143-0023
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