Porting Samba's CPython extensions to Python 3

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Hi Petr,

> Sorry for the delay – I've been working on porting FreeIPA for a few
> months.
> 
> I've spoken with Alexander Bokovoy earlier, and we agreed that adding a
> third_party module might be too much overhead for what is essentially a
> single header file.
> 
> So, I present two options, and I'm attaching patches that port the
> "samba.credentials" module as example usage.
> - third_party/py3c, a copy of the (MIT-licensed) py3c project, with
> corresponding build system integration. (I'm not sure if I did the
> integration correctly; there's probably a better way to add a
> header-only third-party library to Waf-samba)
> - lib/py3compat.h, a relatively simple header with the necessary macros.
> (I forked this from py3c when I was still the sole author, but the
> latter additions are not relevant to Samba.)

I'd prefer a single py3compat.h it's simple enough, but I'd located it under
python/ or python/compat/ instead of lib/

metze

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