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% Bug #580462: changes to GC API
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+% Pure Python strptime implementation by Brett Cannon. See SF patch 474274.
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%\section{Introduction \label{intro}}
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\section{Build and C API Changes}
-Changes to Python's build process, and to the C API, include:
+Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
\begin{itemize}
when running Python's \file{configure} script. (Contributed by Ondrej
Palkovsky.)
-\item The public Python C API will generally be declared using PyAPI_FUNC
-and PyAPI_DATA macros, while Python extension module init functions
-will be declared with PyMODINIT_FUNC. DL_EXPORT/DL_IMPORT macros
-are deprecated.
+\item The \csimplemacro{DL_EXPORT} and \csimplemacro{DL_IMPORT} macros are now
+deprecated. Initialization functions for Python extension modules
+should now be declared using the new macro
+\csimplemacro{PyMODINIT_FUNC}, while the Python core will generally
+use the \csimplemacro{PyAPI_FUNC} and \csimplemacro{PyAPI_DATA}
+macros.
\item The interpreter can be compiled without any docstrings for
the built-in functions and modules by supplying