2012/5/31 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org> wrote: >> Eric Snow wrote: >>> >>> The implementation for sys.implementation is going to use a new (but >>> "private") type[1]. It's basically equivalent to the following: >> >> >> Does this really need to be written in C rather than Python? > > Yes, because we want to use it in the sys module. As you get lower > down in the interpreter stack, implementing things in Python actually > starts getting painful because of bootstrapping issues (e.g. that's > why both _structseq and collections.namedtuple exist).
sys.implementation could be added by site or some other startup file. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
