gh-141004: Document old provisional names for vectorcall & code API
For vectorcall API, the underscore-prefixed provisional names
continue to be available per PEP 590:
https://peps.python.org/pep-0590/#finalizing-the-api
Use `versionadded`, `versionchanged`, and `:no-typesetting:`
to mark this up.
For PyCode API, use `:no-typesetting:` rather than `index::` so that
these are semantically documented as C functions.
* gh-135913: Document ob_refcnt, ob_type, ob_size
In `typeobj.rst`, instead of `:c:member:` it would be better to
use `.. c:member::` with a `:no-index:` option, see:
See ref. https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/domains/index.html#basic-markup
However, `c:member` currently does not support `:no-index:`.
Two special methods, __buffer__ and __release_buffer__ were added to
Python 3.12 by PEP 688. The C API Type Object documentation for slots
includes `tp_as_buffer`, and sub-slots `bf_getbuffer`, `bf_releasebuffer`
but does not refer to the Python Data Model version of those. Add the
missing references.
* Add "cyclic isolate" to the glossary.
* Add a new "Object Life Cycle" page.
* Improve docs for related API, with special focus on cross-references and warnings
Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Peter Bierma <zintensitydev@gmail.com>
The tp_finalize C API doc used PyErr_Fetch() and PyErr_Restore() in
its example code. That API was deprecated in 3.12.
Update to point to the suggested replacement function
PyErr_GetRaisedException() which has a sample usage.
The "Type Objects" title in `c-api/typeobj.rst`, duplicating the title of `c-api/type.rst`,
has been changed to "Type Objects Structures", thereby slightly improving Sphinx
search.
* Update documentation for tp_basicsize & tp_itemsize
- Add alignment requirement
- Mention that ob_size is unreliable if you don't control it
- Add some links for context
- basicsize should include the base type in generaly not just PyObject
This adds a “by-the-way” link to `PyObject_New`, which shouldn't be
used for GC types. In order to be comfortable linking to it, I also
add a link to `PyObject_GC_New` from its docs. And the same for
`*Var` variants, while I'm here.
* Strongly suggest Py_SIZE & Py_SET_SIZE
* gh-125674: Doc: Fix type of `newfunc` first parameter
* fixup! gh-125674: Doc: Fix type of `newfunc` first parameter
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Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
It looks like commit 43cf44ddcc
(gh-31501) accidentally moved the paragraph to the `tp_finalize`
section when the intent was to move it to the `tp_dealloc` section
(according to the commit message).
Also:
* Convert the paragraph to a warning.
* Apply the appropriate font style to `tp_dealloc`.
* Unlinkify the first mention of `tp_dealloc` since the paragraph is
already in the `tp_dealloc` section.
In the slot typedefs table, the parameter of `destructor`
and the first parameter of `traverseproc` should both be
`PyObject *` rather than `void *`.
Same for `inquiry`.
Make PyObject_VisitManagedDict() and PyObject_ClearManagedDict()
functions public in Python 3.13 C API.
* Rename _PyObject_VisitManagedDict() to PyObject_VisitManagedDict().
* Rename _PyObject_ClearManagedDict() to PyObject_ClearManagedDict().
* Document these functions.
Python built with "configure --with-trace-refs" (tracing references)
is now ABI compatible with Python release build and debug build.
Moreover, it now also supports the Limited API.
Change Py_TRACE_REFS build:
* Remove _PyObject_EXTRA_INIT macro.
* The PyObject structure no longer has two extra members (_ob_prev
and _ob_next).
* Use a hash table (_Py_hashtable_t) to trace references (all
objects): PyInterpreterState.object_state.refchain.
* Py_TRACE_REFS build is now ABI compatible with release build and
debug build.
* Limited C API extensions can now be built with Py_TRACE_REFS:
xxlimited, xxlimited_35, _testclinic_limited.
* No longer rename PyModule_Create2() and PyModule_FromDefAndSpec2()
functions to PyModule_Create2TraceRefs() and
PyModule_FromDefAndSpec2TraceRefs().
* _Py_PrintReferenceAddresses() is now called before
finalize_interp_delete() which deletes the refchain hash table.
* test_tracemalloc find_trace() now also filters by size to ignore
the memory allocated by _PyRefchain_Trace().
Test changes for Py_TRACE_REFS:
* Add test.support.Py_TRACE_REFS constant.
* Add test_sys.test_getobjects() to test sys.getobjects() function.
* test_exceptions skips test_recursion_normalizing_with_no_memory()
and test_memory_error_in_PyErr_PrintEx() if Python is built with
Py_TRACE_REFS.
* test_repl skips test_no_memory().
* test_capi skisp test_set_nomemory().
PEP 683 (immortal objects) revealed some ways in which the Python documentation has been unnecessarily coupled to the implementation details of reference counts. In the end users should focus on reference ownership, including taking references and releasing them, rather than on how many reference counts an object has.
This change updates the documentation to reflect that perspective. It also updates the docs relative to immortal objects in a handful of places.
Declare the following functions as macros, since they are actually
macros. It avoids a warning on "TYPE" or "macro" argument.
* PyMem_New()
* PyMem_Resize()
* PyModule_AddIntMacro()
* PyModule_AddStringMacro()
* PyObject_GC_New()
* PyObject_GC_NewVar()
* PyObject_New()
* PyObject_NewVar()
Add C standard C types to nitpick_ignore in Doc/conf.py:
* int64_t
* uint64_t
* uintptr_t
No longer ignore non existing "__int" type in nitpick_ignore.
Update Doc/tools/.nitignore
Lysandros Nikolaou