On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 01:03 Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer@ugent.be> wrote:

On 2018-04-25 09:57, Ivan Levkivskyi wrote:

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In the latter case rewriting EnumMeta in C

... or Cython. It's a great language and I'm sure that the Python standard library could benefit a lot from it.

No, the stdlib should not depend on Cython, no matter how great. That would be a terrible dependency cycle. --Guido

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 01:03 Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer@ugent.be> wrote:

On 2018-04-25 09:57, Ivan Levkivskyi wrote:

...

In the latter case rewriting EnumMeta in C

... or Cython. It's a great language and I'm sure that the Python standard library could benefit a lot from it.

No, the stdlib should not depend on Cython, no matter how great. That would be a terrible dependency cycle. --Guido