[Python-Dev] About raising NotPortableWarning for CPython specific code

[Neil Schemenauer]

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> So am I. It seems to result from the hisorical mess
> of distinguishing between numeric and sequence operations
> at the C level but not the Python level. I think CPython
> should be moving in the direction of eliminating that
> distinction, not expecting all other Python implementations
> to copy it.

As a person responsible for part of the mess, I agree.  I would hope
this could be cleaned up in Python 3 without causing too much
trouble for developers.

  Neil