On Jan 23, 2008 9:01 AM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What is the reason for mmap being a builtin module? > > On Windows lots of modules are linked into the python main dll. The file > PC/config.c contains a list of all modules. From the point of the > maintainer it's much easier to link the modules into the main dll > instead of creating standalone dlls. I also suspect that it's much > faster because relocation is slow (see PC/dllbase_nt.txt). Martin or > Mark can give you a better answer. >
ok > > Why do you want to overwrite the existing module instead of using a > different name like ralfmmap? > > import ralfmmap as mmap > sys.modules]'mmap'] = mmap > I thought about that (ugly hack) too. I would have to change the imports at a lot of places (and revert the changes when we switch to python 2.6). (whereas on Unix I would only have to do install the new mmap module). - Ralf
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