[issue7989] Transition time/datetime C modules to Python

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
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> Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
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> As far as I remember, the datetime module started as a pure python module and was reimplemented in C around year 2003 or so.  One of the important additions at that time was the C API to datetime functionality.  I am afraid that with the _timemodule.c/timemodule.py split there will be more an more functionality that is awkward to access from C API.

That's correct, though the main reason for rewriting the module in
C was to gain performance - this is essential for basic types like
date/time types.

-1 on undoing the C rewrite.

It would be much better to spell out the problems you mention and
provide patches to implement solutions for them.

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