Capsule-related changes:
* PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() can now open capsules. This addresses
most of the remaining backwards-compatibility concerns about
the conversion of Python 2.7 from CObjects to capsules.
* CObjects were marked Pending Deprecation.
* Documentation about this pending deprecation was added to
cobject.h.
* The capsule source files were added to the legacy PC build
processes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8f36109..38c7083 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -184,7 +184,9 @@
is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported
- from Python 3.1.
+ from Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution
+ have been converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility
+ concerns, PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Tests
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