gh-141004: Mark up docs of old PyMem macros#143783
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Their docs-only deprecation notice appeared 2.0: https://docs.python.org/release/2.0/api/memoryInterface.html but not 1.6: https://docs.python.org/release/2.0/api/memoryInterface.html Nowadays we call this soft deprecation. Since PEP 445, they are now direct aliases; there are no (additional) binary compatibility concerns over the preferred names.
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| .. c:macro:: PyMem_MALLOC(size) | ||
| PyMem_NEW(type, size) | ||
| PyMem_REALLOC(ptr, size) | ||
| PyMem_RESIZE(ptr, type, size) | ||
| PyMem_FREE(ptr) | ||
| PyMem_DEL(ptr) |
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I think it would be nice to have a table, similar to what I did here.
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Thanks @encukou for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.14. |
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Thanks @encukou for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.13. |
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These had a docs-only deprecation notice since the first version of the docs in this repo. Nowadays we call things “soft deprecated” if there's just a note in the docs. The deprecated directive needs a version, I went with the first one that had the notice (2.0; it's not in 1.6): - https://docs.python.org/release/2.0/api/memoryInterface.html - https://docs.python.org/release/1.6/api/memoryInterface.html Since PEP 445, they are now direct aliases; there are no (additional) binary compatibility concerns over the preferred names. (cherry picked from commit a009e78) Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
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These had a docs-only deprecation notice since the first version of the docs in this repo. Nowadays we call things “soft deprecated” if there's just a note in the docs. The deprecated directive needs a version, I went with the first one that had the notice (2.0; it's not in 1.6): - https://docs.python.org/release/2.0/api/memoryInterface.html - https://docs.python.org/release/1.6/api/memoryInterface.html Since PEP 445, they are now direct aliases; there are no (additional) binary compatibility concerns over the preferred names. (cherry picked from commit a009e78) Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
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GH-143864 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch. |
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GH-143865 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.13 branch. |
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These had a docs-only deprecation notice since the first version of the docs in this repo. Nowadays we call things “soft deprecated” if there's just a note in the docs. The deprecated directive needs a version, I went with the first one that had the notice (2.0; it's not in 1.6): - https://docs.python.org/release/2.0/api/memoryInterface.html - https://docs.python.org/release/1.6/api/memoryInterface.html Since PEP 445, they are now direct aliases; there are no (additional) binary compatibility concerns over the preferred names.
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…3864) gh-141004: Mark up docs of old PyMem macros (GH-143783) These had a docs-only deprecation notice since the first version of the docs in this repo. Nowadays we call things “soft deprecated” if there's just a note in the docs. The deprecated directive needs a version, I went with the first one that had the notice (2.0; it's not in 1.6): - https://docs.python.org/release/2.0/api/memoryInterface.html - https://docs.python.org/release/1.6/api/memoryInterface.html Since PEP 445, they are now direct aliases; there are no (additional) binary compatibility concerns over the preferred names. (cherry picked from commit a009e78) Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
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…3865) gh-141004: Mark up docs of old PyMem macros (GH-143783) These had a docs-only deprecation notice since the first version of the docs in this repo. Nowadays we call things “soft deprecated” if there's just a note in the docs. The deprecated directive needs a version, I went with the first one that had the notice (2.0; it's not in 1.6): - https://docs.python.org/release/2.0/api/memoryInterface.html - https://docs.python.org/release/1.6/api/memoryInterface.html Since PEP 445, they are now direct aliases; there are no (additional) binary compatibility concerns over the preferred names. (cherry picked from commit a009e78) Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
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These had a docs-only deprecation notice since the first version of the docs in this repo. Nowadays we call things “soft deprecated” if there's just a note in the docs.
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deprecateddirective needs a version, I went with the first one that had the notice (2.0; it's not in 1.6).Since PEP 445, they are now direct aliases; there are no (additional) binary compatibility concerns over the preferred names.
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