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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 01:11:21 CEST 2013


On 12 Oct 2013 05:49, "Eric Snow" <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote: > 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? Try just putting "name = 'decimal'" at the top of the source file.

In this case the fixup needs to be conditional on the absence of "_decimal". Aside from that, yes, lying about name is the easiest way to preserve pickle compatibility while still moving code around.

Cheers, Nick.

-eric


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