[Python-Dev] C extension import time (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Fri Oct 11 21:41:00 CEST 2013


Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Just create a pydecimal module (like pyio).

That's very fast indeed. There's one minor problem: For backwards compatibility and pickling [1] I'd need to add

__module__ = 'decimal'

to every class of the Python version. Are there any reasons not to do that?

Stefan Krah

[1] _decimal has always set the module name to 'decimal' because of that.



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