[Python-Dev] PEP 399: Pure Python/C Accelerator Module Compatibiilty Requirements

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:17:05 +0100
Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> On 05/04/2011 20:57, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > [snip...]
> > [Brett]
> >> (sorry, Raymond, for picking on heapq, but is
> >> was what bit the PyPy people most recently =).
> > No worries, it wasn't even my code.  Someone
> > donated it.  The was a discusion on python-dev
> > and collective agreement to allow it to have
> > semantic differences that would let it run faster.
> > IIRC, the final call was made by Uncle Timmy.
> >
> 
> The major problem that pypy had with heapq, aside from semantic 
> differences, was (is?) that if you run the tests against the pure-Python 
> version (without the C accelerator) then tests *fail*. This means they 
> have to patch the CPython tests in order to be able to use the pure 
> Python version.

Was the tests patch contributed back?

Regards

Antoine.