On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:36:20 +0100 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 April 2011 08:05, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Raymond Hettinger > > <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Almost none of the concerns that have been raised has been addressed. Does > >> the PEP only apply to purely algorithmic modules such as heapq or does it > >> apply to anything written in C (like an xz compressor or for example)? > > > > My understanding is it does apply only to stuff that does not wrap an > > external library. > > My understanding is that this is most people's understanding, so it > should be explicitly documented in the PEP. > > It would also be worth asking: are there any other reasons for using C > code beyond wrapping external libraries and accelerating code that > could equally be written in Python?
faulthandler is an example. Very low-level tinkering with threads, signal handlers and possibly corrupt memory simply can't be done in Python. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
