[Python-Dev] [RFC] Removing pure Python implementation of OrderedDict (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Sep 5 10:40:14 EDT 2017

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Simon Cross <hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com> wrote:

I thought the decision a few years ago was that all modules that have a C library for performance reasons should also have a Python version? Did this decision change at some point? (just curious).

It was never meant as a hard rule. IIRC the actual rule is more that if you have both a C and a Python version they need to supply the same API, and the naming should be e.g. _pickle (C) and pickle (Python), and the Python version should automatically replace itself with the C version when the latter exists (e.g. by putting an import * at the end with a try/except around it).

There are tons of modules that only have a C version and there's no need to change this -- and I'm fine with occasionally a module removing the Python version when the C version is deemed sufficiently stable and compatible. (In some cases a move in the opposite direction may also be reasonable. No two cases are exactly alike.)

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