[Python-Dev] Const-correctness in C-API Object Protocol

[Reid Kleckner]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
> Also changing it now would be a giant hassle, leading to so-called "const
> poisoning" where many, many APIs need to be changed before everything would
> again work.

The poisoning will not break any users of the API, though, since they
can pass const and non-const pointers.  Internally Python would have
to go through and add const keywords as appropriate when passing
strings around.  IMO it's worth it to not cause this warning for
users.

Reid