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by shakna 8 days ago
> I removed around 272 private functions and 15 private variables from the public C API (compared to Python 3.12 API).

[0] https://discuss.python.org/t/c-api-my-plan-to-clarify-privat...

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Thanks, what madness. CPython wasn't abandoned in favor of PyPy at the 2 to 3 transition precisely because they wanted to keep the C extensions working. So what do they do next? Break the C extensions. Genius!