Re: [Python-3000] Modules with Dual Python/C Implementations

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Dec 11, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:

On 12/10/06, Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Has anyone considered consolidating the module pairs that have both a
C and Python implementation? For example, pickle and cPickle and
StingIO and cStringIO. It seems like keeping both around might be
counter productive. It leads to more code for bugs, issues when there
are accidental differences between the two, leading to misdiagnosed
errors or hard to find bugs when people test with pickle and run with

to make a module in C over its original Python version, the original
doesn't need to stick around.

cPickle. Just seems like all around, if there was found to be a reason

version can be used by alternative Python implementations.

This has been argued about before. It has been suggested we actually ditch the C version since we only want to maintain one version and the Python

Ronald

You're kidding right? In most, if not all, cases with dual implementations the C version is significanty faster.

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