<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Moore</b> <<a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com">p.f.moore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 10/2/06, Phillip J. Eby <<a href="mailto:pje@telecommunity.com">pje@telecommunity.com</a>> wrote:<br>[SNIP]<br>> I'm surprised, however, that you think working on this in C is going to be<br>> *less* time than it would take to simply replace __import__ with a Python
<br>> function that reimplements PEP 302...<br><br>That I do agree with. There's a bootstrapping issue (you can't import<br>the Python module that does all this without using a C-coded import<br>mechanism) but that should be resolvable.
</blockquote><div><br>This is why I asked for input from people on which would take less time. Almost all the answers I got was that the the C code was delicate but that it was workable. Several people said they wished for a Python implementation, but hardly anyone said flat-out, "don't waste your time, the Python version will be faster to do".
<br><br>As for the bootstrapping, I am sure it is resolvable as well. There are several ways to go about it that are all tractable.<br><br>-Brett</div></div>