On 6/21/2013 7:45 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Le Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:39:10 +1000,
Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> a écrit :
I think it's OK to expose additional platform specific features in the
C version, and have them fail cleanly with the pure Python version
(rather than silently giving the wrong answer).
PEP 399 says we don't do it:
"Acting as a drop-in replacement also dictates that no public API be
provided in accelerated code that does not exist in the pure Python
code. Without this requirement people could accidentally come to rely
on a detail in the accelerated code which is not made available to
other VMs that use the pure Python implementation."
Any C accelerator extensions should by documented as CPython extensions
not necessarily available elsewhere. Or the doc should have, in this
case, a separate _stat that says "In addition to the above, CPython's
_stat, imported by stat, also provides ...
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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