[Python-Dev] LZMA compression support in 3.3

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>IMO, we really, really need some common way of accessing C libraries that
>>works for all major Python variants.
> 
> We have one. It's called writing an extension module.

I think Dan means some way of doing this without having
to hand-craft a different one for each Python implementation.

If we're really serious about the idea that "Python is not
CPython", this seems like a reasonable thing to want. Currently
the Python universe is very much centred around CPython, with
the other implementations perpetually in catch-up mode.

My suggestion on how to address this would be something akin
to Pyrex or Cython. I gather that there has been some work
recently on adding different back-ends to Cython to generate
code for different Python implementations.

-- 
Greg