[Python-3000] Modules with Dual Python/C Implementations (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Dec 19 10:27:13 CET 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I think a reasonable solution here is to make the C version an optional implementation detail of the Python version, such as was done for the heapq module already (the C version is heapq and automatically imported by heapq.py if it exists). If this requires that some of the C modules need to be upgraded to be more feature compatible with the Python versions, so be it -- that would be a nice summer-of-code project for someone. Also, the specific problem with StringIO (that the .py version supports Unicode while the C version doesn't) will hopefully go away with the string unification.

Note that this approach has the additional benefit of being friendlier to a hybrid implementation where only some of the module functionality is provided by the C version (ala functools/_functools - one of the key goals for partial is to be faster than the equivalent function, so it's in C, while the rest of that module isn't likely to be performance critical, so it's left in Python).

Cheers, Nick.

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