[Python-Dev] peps: Update PEP 399 to include comments from python-dev.

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:59:53 +0200
brett.cannon <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> Technical details of
> +the VM providing the accelerated code are allowed to differ as
> +necessary, e.g., a class being a ``type`` when implemented in C.

I don't understand what this means ("a class being a ``type`` when
implemented in C").

> +If this test were to provide 100% branch coverage for
> +``heapq.heappop()`` in the pure Python implementation then the
> +accelerated C code would be allowed to be added to CPython's standard
> +library. If it did not, then the test suite would need to be updated
> +until 100% branch coverage was provided before the accelerated C code
> +could be added.

I really think that's a too strong requirement. We don't want to
paralyze development until the stdlib gets 100% coverage in the tests
suite.

Regards

Antoine.