[Python-Dev] IO implementation: in C and Python?

[Michael Foord]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Georg Brandl <g.brandl <at> gmx.net> writes:
>   
>> I just hope everyone updates both versions when making changes to IO.
>>     
>
> My proposal is just organizational, it is neutral in terms of whether or not the
> Python version is correctly maintained.
>
> We can hope that the IO lib *semantics* won't change too much in the future
> (although there is an IMO legitimate request for a setblocking() method:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue949667). On the other hand, I don't expect anyone to
> willingly use the Python version if the C version is available.
>
>
>   

If they're functionally equivalent and single set of tests is run on 
both then -- assuming good tests -- breakage would be noticed...

Michael

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