On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 22:23, Tim Peters wrote:
That's a big enough point that it deserves public airing, though: everyone (except Guido, I guess) please remember what it was like when you first learned Python! Mounds and mounds of library code written in Python, doing interesting things with interesting techniques, and written at a high enough level that you weren't wholly buried under details. Python's C code is generally clean and educational too, but has a *much* smaller potential audience than our pure-Python modules. Nobody can sanely accuse me of not caring about speed (see a decade of speed-obsessed Python checkins for counterexamples <wink>), but I cry a little each time a piece of the system gets recoded in C. Keeping the original Python code around is a nice compromise (pioneered, IIRC, by string.py, a loooong time ago).
Yes, yes, yes. I'd be bummed if modules like pickle.py got lost or out of sync with its C cousin. -Barry