[Python-Dev] Moving forward on the object memory API

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Do we need to bump the API version after these changes?
> 
> Why?  The API version is for the source API, not the binary API, right?

No, it's for the binary API.  There's a test in Py_InitModule() that
checks whether a dynamically loaded extension uses the same API as the
core, and that's definitely a binary compatibility issue.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)