The Python Language Summit 2024: Native Interface and Limited C API
Briefly

Petr explained that one of the more impactful things the working group has done is to formalize 'guidelines to get consistency with the good parts of the existing API.'
This extra performance penalty means that CPython itself uses its own private API which avoids the type check, but this extra private API only for CPython isn't a great experience.
Read at Python Software Foundation Blog
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