Nick Coghlan wrote: > What features do you find particularly unfortunate?
Whichever ones are making people think that implementing it in C is infeasible. > Just because > something isn't particularly amenable to implementation in C, doesn't > make it a bad API for a Python library No, but for something like a number type, which benefits greatly from speed, making it actively C-hostile doesn't seem like a good idea. > (e.g. the dicts to enable/signal > the different error traps are a natural interface for Python code I don't see why there can't be an object with a mapping interface for this, that stores them internally as a bit field or whatever is convenient for the C code. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
