On 7/18/06, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [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".
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