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Test Limited API in _testcapi module

Open encukou opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

The Limited API is currently tested in xxlimited module(s), which isn't a great location since the module serves as a “tutorial” example of how to make a module. There's no room for advanced stuff or edge cases. Testing Limited API together with other C API is complicated, because:

  • Limited API needs to be enabled per source file
  • Some builds don't support Limited API, so Limited API tests must be skipped on those builds. (Currently this is Py_TRACE_REFS, but that may change.)
  • Py_LIMITED_API must be defined before <Python.h> is included.

With #95505 (splitting _testcapi module into several source files), the first complication is solved. I'd like to add helpers for the others, to make testing Limited API easy.

encukou avatar Aug 15 '22 09:08 encukou