[Raymond Hettinger] > ... > If the current approach gets in their way, the C implementers should feel > free to > make an alternate design choice.
I expect they will, eventually. Converting this to C is a big job, and at the NFS sprint we settled on an "incremental" strategy allowing most of the module to remain written in Python, converting methods to C one at a time. Changing the user-visible API is a hard egg to swallow, and it's unfortunate that the Python code used a dict to hold "flags" to begin with. The dict doesn't just record whether an exception has occurred, it also counts how many times the exception occurred. It's possible that someone, somewhere, has latched on to that as "a feature". _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
