On 4 August 2016 at 06:32, Marcos Dione <mdi...@grulic.org.ar> wrote: > Maybe you're right. Maybe, to keep Python's own code simple, we could > skip these optimizations, and leave them in a 3rd party module.
Having the scandir package on PyPI made it possible for folks to quantify the benefits of the new os.scandir() call for different workloads before we committed to adding it to the standard library. It also had the benefit of allowing folks to achieve the speedups by installing the library and changing their code if that was easier for them than waiting for a new release of CPython and upgrading to it (e.g. that's common for library authors that focus on Linux can often require an extra C dependency without too much hassle, but also frequently target the older versions of Python shipped by long term support distros). It seems to me that a dedicated "os_linux" addon module on PyPI could serve a dual purpose in making updated os module APIs available on older versions of Python, as well as in providing a venue for folks to experiment with the performance of new syscalls before proposing them for stdlib inclusion. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
