PEP 489: Multi-phase extension module initialization

Known limitations of the current implementation:

- documentation changes are incomplete
- there's a reference leak I haven't tracked down yet

The leak is most visible by running:

  ./python -m test -R3:3 test_importlib

However, you can also see it by running:

  ./python -X showrefcount

Importing the array or _testmultiphase modules, and
then deleting them from both sys.modules and the local
namespace shows significant increases in the total
number of active references each cycle. By contrast,
with _testcapi (which continues to use single-phase
initialisation) the global refcounts stabilise after
a couple of cycles.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/PC/config.c b/PC/config.c
index 48dbcc0273..66bf4580a0 100644
--- a/PC/config.c
+++ b/PC/config.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* Module configuration */
 
 /* This file contains the table of built-in modules.
-   See init_builtin() in import.c. */
+   See create_builtin() in import.c. */
 
 #include "Python.h"