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Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

As far as I remember, the datetime module started as a pure python module and was reimplemented in C around year 2003 or so. One of the important additions at that time was the C API to datetime functionality. I am afraid that with the _timemodule.c/timemodule.py split there will be more an more functionality that is awkward to access from C API.

That's correct, though the main reason for rewriting the module in C was to gain performance - this is essential for basic types like date/time types.

-1 on undoing the C rewrite.

It would be much better to spell out the problems you mention and provide patches to implement solutions for them.