Message 393403 - Python tracker

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PEP 0497 is rejected; the active one is PEP 387, which says "backwards incompatibility" means preexisting code ceases to comparatively function after a change.
So, this does look like a backwards-incompatible change.

Unfortunately, not all of the C API is documented, so unless it's explicitly marked private, people will use it :(