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authorAndrew McNulty <amcn102@gmail.com>2023-04-24 09:52:28 +0200
committerEli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com>2023-08-14 20:02:09 -0400
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Python: Add 'limited_api' kwarg to extension_module
This commit adds a new keyword arg to extension_module() that enables a user to target the Python Limited API, declaring the version of the limited API that they wish to target. Two new unittests have been added to test this functionality.
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@@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ the addition of the following:
`/usr/lib/site-packages`. When subdir is passed to this method,
it will be appended to that location. This keyword argument is
mutually exclusive with `install_dir`
+- `limited_api`: *since 1.3.0* A string containing the Python version
+ of the [Py_LIMITED_API](https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/stable.html) that
+ the extension targets. For example, '3.7' to target Python 3.7's version of
+ the limited API. This behavior can be disabled by setting the value of
+ `python.allow_limited_api`. See [Python module options](Builtin-options.md#python-module).
Additionally, the following diverge from [[shared_module]]'s default behavior: