[Python-3000] Modules with Dual Python/C Implementations (original) (raw)
Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Dec 12 03:51:07 CET 2006
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On Dec 11, 2006, at 6:50 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
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.
The C and Python versions of some modules are not always identical.
There can be subtle differences and those would need to be addressed
before the Python version could be ditched. E.g. subclass-able
StringIO.
- -Barry
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