On 12/11/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brett Cannon wrote: > It has been suggested we actually > ditch the C version since we only want to maintain one version and the > Python version can be used by alternative Python implementations. Then we would lose all the speed advantages that were presumably thought important when the C version was created in the first place. I say stop worrying and ditch the Python version. An alternative Python implementation is going to have to provide implementations of all the existing C-only modules. A few more isn't going to kill it.
Except, of course, when the Python versions has features the C version does not (thinking specifically of StringIO and unicode here.) -- Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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