> No worries, it wasn't even my code. Someone > donated it. The was a discusion on python-dev > and collective agreement to allow it to have > semantic differences that would let it run faster. > IIRC, the final call was made by Uncle Timmy. >
The bug link is here: http://bugs.python.org/issue3051 I think this PEP is precisely targeting this: "I saw no need to complicate the pure python code for this." if you complicate the C code for this, then please as well complicate python code for this since it's breaking stuff. And this: "FWIW, the C code is not guaranteed to be exactly the same in terms of implementation details, only the published API should be the same. And, for this module, a decision was made for the C code to support only lists eventhough the pure python version supports any sequence." The idea of the PEP is for C code to be guaranteed to be the same as Python where it matters to people. Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ 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
