[Python-Dev] SF patch 864863: Bisect C implementation (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Dec 31 09:07:24 EST 2003

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 22:23, Tim Peters wrote:

That's a big enough point that it deserves public airing, though: everyone (except Guido, I guess) please remember what it was like when you first learned Python! Mounds and mounds of library code written in Python, doing interesting things with interesting techniques, and written at a high enough level that you weren't wholly buried under details. Python's C code is generally clean and educational too, but has a much smaller potential audience than our pure-Python modules. Nobody can sanely accuse me of not caring about speed (see a decade of speed-obsessed Python checkins for counterexamples ), but I cry a little each time a piece of the system gets recoded in C. Keeping the original Python code around is a nice compromise (pioneered, IIRC, by string.py, a loooong time ago).

Yes, yes, yes. I'd be bummed if modules like pickle.py got lost or out of sync with its C cousin.

-Barry

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