[Python-Dev] IO implementation: in C and Python?
Antoine Pitrou
solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Feb 20 16:50:45 CET 2009
Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes:
>
> I worry that with your proposal people are once again going to import
> the pure Python version where they shouldn't. Maybe _pyio.py would
> work though?
I'm ok with _pyio.py.
> Hoping that modules won't evolve is futile. The concern for divergence
> is real. Unit-testing both with the same tests might be the solution.
Yes, the same tests should be applied to both (modulo the few ones that test for
implementation-specific behaviour, e.g. the max_buffer_size stuff).
Regards
Antoine.
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