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Brett Cannon wrote:
> It has been suggested we actually
> ditch the C version since we only want to maintain one version and the
> Python version can be used by alternative Python implementations.


Then we would lose all the speed advantages that were
presumably thought important when the C version was
created in the first place.

I say stop worrying and ditch the Python version. An
alternative Python implementation is going to have to

provide implementations of all the existing C-only
modules. A few more isn't going to kill it.