Oh, about the cost of writing C code, we started to enhance the socket module in socket.py but keep the C code unchanged. I am thinking to the support of enums. Some C functions are wrapped in Python.
Victor Le 19 juin 2017 11:59 PM, "Guido van Rossum" <gu...@python.org> a écrit : > There are examples in timemodule.c which went through a similar conversion > from plain tuples to (sort-of) named tuples. I agree that upgrading the > tuples returned by the socket module to named tuples would be nice, but > it's a low priority project. Maybe someone interested can create a PR? > (First open an issue stating that you're interested; point to this email > from me to prevent that some other core dev just closes it again.) > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 2017-06-13 22:13 GMT+02:00 Thomas Güttler <guettl...@thomas-guettler.de>: >> > AFAIK the socket module returns plain tuples in Python3: >> > >> > https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html >> > >> > Why not use named tuples? >> >> For technical reasons: the socket module is mostly implemented in the >> C language, and define a "named tuple" in C requires to implement a >> "sequence" time which requires much more code than creating a tuple. >> >> In short, create a tuple is as simple as Py_BuildValue("OO", item1, >> item2). >> >> Creating a "sequence" type requires something like 50 lines of code, >> maybe more, I don't know exactly. >> >> Victor >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list >> Python-ideas@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) >
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