[issue11085] expose _abcoll as collections.abc
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Oct 7 22:11:59 CEST 2011
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> > collections is one of those modules everyone will use in their code.
>
> Simply untrue, and definitely not in every program. It is also
> irrelevant for bringing up the interactive interpreter, where there
> initially is no user code and which should happen as fast as possible.
I don't think a 50ms startup time is a problem for the interactive
interpreter. Of course, it will be more noticeable on very slow
machines.
> I also doubt IDLE uses collections to bring up its shell window.
The collections module appeared in 2.4; antiquated code might indeed not
know about it ;)
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