[Python-Dev] stat module in C -- what to do with stat.py?

[Charles-François Natali]

2013/6/20 Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>:
> If the .py file is going to be wrong or incomplete, why would we want to
> keep it -- or use it as fallback -- at all? If we're dead set on having a
> .py file instead of requiring it to be part of the interpreter (whichever
> that is, however it was built), it should be generated as part of the build
> process. Personally, I don't see the value in it; other implementations will
> need to do *something* special to use it anyway.

That's exactly my rationale for pushing for removal.

cf