[Python-3000] How to override io.BytesIO and io.StringIO with their optimized C version? (original) (raw)

Alexandre Vassalotti alexandre at peadrop.com
Wed Dec 26 22:24:57 CET 2007

I started to play again with the _bytesio and _stringio modules I created, during last summer. Right now, I am mostly porting my changes to the current trunk. If all goes well, the modules should be ready to merged in the trunk by this week. (question: How should this be done? Should I just bundle a set of patches and put on the tracker?)

However, I found a little problem which I am not sure how to fix properly. Early during the interpreter initialization process, the _bytesio and _stringio modules seems to be unavailable for some unknown reason. And since io.py is imported before the modules become available, this causes io.py to always use the Python version of BytesIO and StringIO. So my question is, how should I override io.BytesIO and io.StringIO with their optimized C version? My first thought is to override the module in site.py, but I am not sure yet if this the right thing to do.

Cheers and happy holidays, -- Alexandre

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