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

[Eric Snow]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> So why not just replace the *broken* parts of stat.py and keep the
> rest of it?

In some ways this sounds like yet another use case for what amounts to
properties on modules.  The sketchy contants that are causing concern
could raise NotImplementedError in stat.py, but the C version would
implement them.  Then PEP 399 remains satisfied and appropriately so.

-eric