gh-141004: Document remaining pyport.h utility macros
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| *type* is the type of the expression. In modern versions of Python, this is | ||
| unused. Historically, *type* was used to cast *integer*. |
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Can we reformulate this more precisely through a versionchanged? And indicate that the parameter is unused and kept for backward compatibility?
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There's already a versionchanged that specifies this below.
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Oh sorry. In this case, I think we can just say that it's not used anymore and only kept for BC. The change has been done in 3.1 so whatever is after 3.1 is already "modern" Python.
Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
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