[Python-Dev] IO implementation: in C and Python? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Feb 20 16:50:45 CET 2009

Guido van Rossum <guido python.org> writes:

I worry that with your proposal people are once again going to import the pure Python version where they shouldn't. Maybe pyio.py would work though?

I'm ok with _pyio.py.

Hoping that modules won't evolve is futile. The concern for divergence is real. Unit-testing both with the same tests might be the solution.

Yes, the same tests should be applied to both (modulo the few ones that test for implementation-specific behaviour, e.g. the max_buffer_size stuff).

Regards

Antoine.

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