With the nuance that C forces you to deal with those never use these hacks in order to do anything non-trivial. I can't see why anyone would go and mess with C

With the nuance that C forces you to deal with those never use these hacks in order to do anything non-trivial. I can't see why anyone would go and mess with CPython's internals like that in production code. Other than for nefarious purposes, I guess.