[Python-Dev] xmlrpclib speed boost (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:47:04 -0400

[Skip Montanaro]

... Somewhere along the way, the import of the escape function from the cgi module got moved out of the top level into the various functions that call it. Moving it back out to top level fixed that. I just checked in this change and a fairly trivial test case for xmlrpclib.

This change may be deemed not to be the correct fix as far backwards compatibility is concerned (it uses the "from m import x as y" feature which was new with 2.0 I think).

I pay no attention to "backwards compatibility" issues in the libraries we ship, and have Guido's blessing for that ornery attitude: the libs we ship should do the best possible job in the context of the release they're shipped in. It's explicitly not a PythonLabs goal that people be able to pick modules out of a release and use them in an earlier release (although it may be a goal of some developers for some modules -- but then the burden is on them to ensure it works for the module and release combinations they care about).