Sept. 16, 1999
6:08 p.m.
Why not just run exceptions.py through Python2C, visually and experimentally verify that it works, then ship an exceptions.c as an optional module? People wanting to ship self-contained packages could then toss exceptions.py and build the C version of the exceptions module.
Alternatively (and probably easier) it (and site.py) could be stored as frozen modules. All it takes is some edits to Python/frozen.c. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)