[Python-Dev] frozen exceptions.py (was: win32 specific exception in the core?)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Tue, 8 Feb 2000 15:58:44 +0100


> Why C? Implement it in Python and freeze the sucker.

size and performance.  exception classes are installed
during initialization of the python interpreter, and they
all need to be made available for C code anyway.

(in fact, the new code isn't that much larger than the
code needed to copy stuff from exceptions.py)

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