Guido van Rossum wrote: >> While the pickle/cPickle, StringIO/cStringIO, etc., naming can be >> a bit annoying, it does give me the choice whether I want it to be >> fast or flexible. > I definitely *don't* want to continue the old habit of having a slow > and a fast module with different names; the experience with especially > cPickle and cStringIO is that everyone believes their code is > performance critical and hence uses the C version if it exists, > thereby repeating the same idiom over and over.
Until they need to turn Unicode strings into file-like objects, at which point they go back to StringIO. (Why yes, I was recently bitten by that particular "restriction". :) Later, Blake. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
