Re: Embedding python

Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Wed, 17 Aug 1994 00:19:32 +0200

> > Python would be easier to embed if all Python provided functions used a
> > common prefix like "Py_". Functions would be named Py_load, Py_foo,
> > Py_bar, etc.
>
> Indeed. Wasn't there a plan to do just that? What's the current timetable?

Yes. You can already see the proposed renamings in quite some detail
in Include/rename1.h. I hope to get this implemented by October. The
tkinter module already uses the new conventions (which means I can't
easily read that code :-).

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