[Python-3000] _heapq.c, etc. (was Re: Heaptypes)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Jul 21 11:38:07 CEST 2007


Greg Ewing schrieb:
> Josiah Carlson wrote:
>> What made it really annoying is that there was no way to tell the heapq
>> module not to load the C version so that I could use a generic container. 
> 
> I would say that all such dual-implementation modules should
> make the specific implementations available under different
> names, using some convention such as _c_heapq/_p_heapq.

You mean, like prefixing it with c, e.g. StringIO vs. cStringIO,
pickle vs. cPickle?

Regards,
Martin


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