From 0d87bb66d3c2fc6331c3b1f9d649ebc9bb385c5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:29:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [3.14] gh-121028: Soft-deprecate sys.api_version (GH-136463) (GH-136928) (cherry picked from commit 658599c15d13ee3a5cb56c3d9fccaa195465d4b5) Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin --- Doc/library/sys.rst | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 05bc7cfb9dc0..52f0af31c687 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -2191,8 +2191,11 @@ always available. Unless explicitly noted otherwise, all variables are read-only .. data:: api_version - The C API version for this interpreter. Programmers may find this useful when - debugging version conflicts between Python and extension modules. + The C API version, equivalent to the C macro :c:macro:`PYTHON_API_VERSION`. + Defined for backwards compatibility. + + Currently, this constant is not updated in new Python versions, and is not + useful for versioning. This may change in the future. .. data:: version_info -- 2.47.3